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Although Clinton’s speech was serious in nature and appeared to be extemporaneous to some extent, he injected humor into his address...
...Crimson’s news board, were the Harvard Orators at yesterday’s event, and Tracy E. Nowski ’07 and Kiernan P. Schmitt ’06-’07 gave the Ivy Orations. Per tradition, the Harvard Oration is a serious address and the Ivy Oration is humorous...
...secondary fields in addition to their concentrations; and a new system of general education, which revamps the Core with an increased focus on contemporary issues, passed the Faculty last month. Yet the road to where we are today has left Harvard and the Faculty deeply scarred and has exposed serious flaws within FAS that threaten to undermine the new curriculum just as they did the soon-to-be-defunct Core...
...these actions cause the tenor of the debate to sink, but those not involved in the discussion are put off. This is particularly damaging given the current rancorous political culture. Now, more than ever, universities need to serve as forums for intelligent and well-reasoned discussions about the serious problems our country faces...
Moreover, if Harvard is serious about boosting its tech transfer revenues, it might be tempted to take a hard-line stance in negotiations with private firms. But that might also make negotiations drag on—delaying the date at which Harvard professors’ discoveries reach the marketplace...