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...deadliest pandemics in human history - the Black Death of the 14th century, which killed roughly 25 million people in Europe - resulted in massive social dislocation and doubt in an omnipotent God, which some scholars think led to the intellectual ferment of the Renaissance. Cholera, when it came to Europe in the 1830s, led to the overhaul of public health and sanitation. Human vulnerability can paradoxically lead to the triumph of human confidence - the knowledge that progress can survive even the most dreadful diseases...
...Raúl A. Carrillo ’10, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Lowell House. His column appears regularly...
...That those individuals may be recent immigrants with limited education makes it more urgent. A publicly traded company has a fiduciary duty to its shareholders—by law, it must care only about their good; a nonprofit organization has made a commitment to be run for the general social good. As such, the meaning of this goal is a matter for public, not private, debate, and having a valuable opinion on it does not, as was implied in a recent editorial, require full access to Harvard’s balance sheet...
...Finally, well-meaning Harvard administrators—led as they are by a social historian—undoubtedly recognize that the future leaders who pass through this university will shape the institutions they go on to run after the institutions that raised them. One of President Drew G. Faust’s original, now quaint, initiatives was to inquire into why so many students were accepting unfulfilling jobs in the financial services industry after graduation. A case that students should instead follow their hearts and work to build a better society is inherently less convincing coming from a university that...
...Kornblith ’10, a Crimson editorial writer, is a social studies concentrator in Cabot House...