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Harper, the Corporation’s first African-American member and a prominent lawyer, served as a catalyst in the downfall of the president he helped select...
...good about yourself when you’re around Sarkar. You should feel humbled, awed, and manifestly inferior. He’s won virtually everything there is to win, and he’s achieved almost every honor available at Harvard. While a junior, he was one of a select group of students inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. As an applied math concentrator, he has been a head course assistant for several classes. His senior thesis, which was about the education of homeless youth, won the Hoopes prize for outstanding scholarship. And recently he was awarded Mather House?...
...according to Buttenwieser University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, one of the five founders of Social Studies, the concentration carefully chose students during its initial years less in order to select the best of Harvard’s crop and more because they worried that most students at Harvard could not complete an interdisciplinary thesis...
Last chances abound for the Class of 2007 in this, the final stretch of their lives as Harvard College students. For a select portion of the class, a last chance at one of undergraduate education’s greatest honors turned out to be their best. In ceremonies to be held today, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) will acquire 91 new members, increasing the total number of this year’s PBK graduates to 163. Invitations to the honor society are first extended in the spring of every academic class’ junior year, at which...
...didn’t empower me to have faith or feel equipped that I can handle the world or make some significant change in it. Instead, with impending graduation, I feel that roads before me are narrower than ever—people take similar paths, and only a few select paths seem possible, or even socially desirable. I feel like I have spent the last four years just trying to keep up—with everyone and everything...