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...group broke out into a Hebrew song. And when a member of the crowd requested a song in English, the revelry continued with, “I had a little dreidel, I made it out of clay.” Friday’s ceremony represents a significant shift from Harvard’s earlier years, when it limited the number of Jewish students admitted to the University. In 1922, then-President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, proposed to cap the number of Jewish students at Harvard—then 21 percent of the student body. In a letter...
...recommendations in PCAP are radical, but not new: cut petroleum use in half by 2020, achieve average fuel economy of 50 mpg, shift the federal government to carbon neutrality. But what makes PCAP particularly impressive is the way it turns the question of climate change away from saving the planet, and toward saving the country. Global warming is too important to be left to the environmentalists - it's a national security issue, an economic issue, even a moral issue. That's the kind of language that can appeal not only to traditional greens but to Republicans, and make climate change...
...program consists of six half-courses: Two must be in practice-based courses, such as workshops on acting and directing, and another two must be in the study of dramatic works with courses taken through the Literature or English and American Literature and Language departments.This decision marks a shift from Harvard’s previous policy of giving no degree credit for such hands-on courses—formerly thought of as carrying the taint of “pre-professionalism”—and opens the door for a possible full-fledged concentration. Additionally, for some...
Perhaps this shift in the nature of activism speaks to the progress of pragmatism and compromise. Instead of mass militancy and invective, our generation appears inclined to dialogue and public service. While picketing may have waned in popularity as a tool of dissent, service groups within the Institute of Politics and the Philips Brooks House Association thrive today as they never have before...
...speech marked a shift in approach for Romney, who has previously sought to highlight areas of agreement between his faith and evangelical Christianity. Now he is attempting to take it one step further, drawing a circle around religious conservatives that includes evangelicals and Mormons, and defining them as in common cause against what he termed "the religion of secularism...