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...from England to France. “I was sold right then and there—have been ever since,” Burbidge said. Once Burbidge gained status in the scientific community, she took a stand to improve opportunities for women in astronomy. When offered the American Astronomical Society??s 1972 Annie Jump Cannon Award, given exclusively to women, she refused it because she wanted to be measured against everyone in her field. Burbidge said she believes the field of astronomy has made significant progress since her career began, with the playing field now more level...
...relative trivialities of the country (chirping birds and glorious grass) and accentuate the important educational opportunity available from living in a city like Cambridge. After all, I’d rather wake up to the sound of a blaring horn and be exposed to the deepest problems of society??which are laid bare for all to see in Cambridge—than be serenaded by chickadees in a tranquil setting where the only people I run into are transplanted suburbanites who close their eyes to the problems of the ghetto on their...
Nutritional problems, however, will not disappear overnight. In a highly intellectual environment, it is easy to dismiss concern over the freshman fifteen as a consequence of society??s obsession with body image. What is not easy to accept is that weight gain in short time periods is not an image concern, but rather a health concern. The Harvard experience includes taking incredible classes, meeting amazing people, and establishing patterns for independent life after graduation—which should include, from the first day of shopping period, a better understanding of the basic nutritional practices that lead to healthy...
Fingleton soon found other outfits to wear—including makeup, wigs, and some flamboyant female attire as a member of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, eventually becoming the society??s Vice President...
...idea of recruiting. Harvard has always attempted to exemplify the ideals of a society at a given period and recruiting is just another expression of this. We are, after all, not the University of Chicago, who have defined excellence as academic achievement and correspondingly produced intellectuals, regardless of society??s valuation for them. Harvard is instead in the business of producing heroes, living ideals of society??s idea of excellence. Were American society to idealize bookish grad students, Harvard would churn them out in droves. Instead, we like our grads competitive, young, and wealthy...