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...because we will want to remember this day, if only to look on it with the faint smile of half-recognition. Like the pictures from move-in years ago—our broad smiles with the roommates we grew to love, or hate—these too will seem somewhat foreign. An enthusiasm we see as unwarranted for anywhere but a grandparents’ refrigerator, perhaps, or a reticence the future us cannot understand. Was today not the happiest day of our lives? If so, we were too excited to know, too tired, emotionally and physically, to think about...
...find it intriguing and somewhat ironic that people should think of me as a fundraiser,” he muses. “That’s not how I think about myself...
...further opportunities. As a former Secretary of the Treasury, Summers is used to the fact that his opinions can carry significant weight. While they may no longer move markets, Summers’ words should be equally significant in the educational sphere. The president of Harvard has played a somewhat muted national role in recent decades, but Summers should not shrink from using Harvard’s presidency as a bully pulpit to speak on issues affecting the interests of the University and of the educational community. Summers should also consider the suggestion advanced on this page by his colleague Jeffrey...
...Though the living wage figure itself is subjectively, and somewhat arbitrarily, calculated, PSLM? dogged push this spring for a Harvard wage floor of $10.25 an hour forces the suits, the union t-shirts and the khaki-clad undergraduates to hammer out a compromise from the economic implications of a wage floor and the ideological arguments surrounding the concept of a living wage...
...move toward bringing all workers to the mandatory wage floor was stymied somewhat by the decentralization of the University. Not only is the University composed of an undergraduate and graduate schools, but it also includes a completely separate medical center...