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...either by athletic organizations, individual alumni, or otherwise, directly or indirectly.” Not only does Harvard remunerate their athletic recruits with one of the best educations in the world but also with the benefits a Harvard degree confers—something the money of hundreds of athletics scholarship could...
While the undergraduate majority might not know the purpose of Radcliffe, leaders of women’s groups on campus say they are interested and excited by the research and scholarship opportunities the Institute provides...
...fact that one is famous doesn’t mean one does not deserve it. In the case of West, his scholarship is among the most cited of all Harvard professors and has provided inspiration for many young scholars making headway into the studies of pressing societal problems. What is interesting, though, is the question of whether celebrity by its very nature damages scholarship...
More likely, celebrity distracts from scholarship. In reality, there is little to gain by further inflating the egos of academics. The beauty of the life of the mind is that it is unadulterated by temporal concerns like fame and money. An academic’s habits need not resemble those of a Benedictine monk, but the driving force of an academic’s ambition should be truth for the sake of truth...
...staff’s editorial should have placed more focus on West’s entire NPR interview. Hearing the interview in its entirety, listeners learn that Summers had the nerve to question West’s scholarship without ever having engaged it. Summers even went so far as to ask West to “check in” with him every few months and update him on the process of his academic work. West certainly is not above being questioned by the president of this University; Summers is indeed his boss. However, Summers had no right to show...