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...They are recruited by hundreds of schools, including the likes of Stanford, Berkeley, Rice, and Duke. At some point, a Harvard athlete decides that he or she values a world-class education, and athletics as a way to receive one. The athlete could easily accept that five-year full scholarship from Stanford, but she or he makes an enormous monetary sacrifice to attend Harvard instead. Harvard offers absolutely nothing to its athletes that it does not offer to other students. Athletes accept this added economic challenge and embrace Harvard athletics for four years. There is no fanfare, little sympathy...
...gift will fund the Herchel Smith Harvard Scholarship for postgraduate study at Cambridge University and encourage an exchange program between Cambridge and Harvard postgraduates. The money will create Harvard’s first professorship in molecular genetics and also fund additional professorships in computer sciences, physics and mathematics...
...still, we would hope, a Harvard president’s right and duty to ensure that all members of the faculty continue to produce at that level of excellence which alone places Harvard at the fore of world scholarship,” the letter from the HRC reads...
...unflattering information about the Institute from the Harvard community. Yet when Radcliffe stumbles, it does not reflect poorly on the Institute’s core mission, but on Harvard, whose duty it is to wholly incorporate the institution’s advocacy for women and women’s scholarship for the betterment of our University...
That concern has become only more prominent since last December when Summers began to spar with West, allegedly about the quality of West’s scholarship and the role of race in college admissions. After that tiff, it seemed that Summers tried to mend some fences—until West blasted Summers as being the cause of his departure. As West made clear in his statements to the press, his decision was made largely based upon Summers’ failure to take any real measures to keep him. Soon, even DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis...