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...lighthearted” address. James H. Stock, economics department chair, said he expects Bernanke to discuss “the importance of economic knowledge.” “Honestly, I’d be very interested to hear his advice to Harvard undergrads, what sort of careers they should be considering, and what knowledge they need to be leaders,” he said. Bernanke was a star economics student in his undergraduate years at Harvard, winning the John H. Williams Prize for the most outstanding senior in the department, as well as an award for his thesis...
...silence the individual voices of the formerly colonized and those without access to imperial resources or the imperial language. Even efforts such as the postcolonial field of study offered by the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature may be ultimately harmful: The notion that there can be some sort of cultural solidarity among incredibly diverse peoples simply by virtue of the sad, shared historical fact of Western domination threatens to muffle unique histories and re-deposit historiographic agency in the hands of Western intellectuals and Western institutions...
...dean of the Faculty, and the dean of the College on an interim basis at some point during the past 27 years. University President Drew G. Faust termed him “an extraordinary servant.”“I have the feeling I’ve sort of backed through life, that nothing that’s happened is particularly planned, and that’s worked out very well,” Pilbeam said. “Being interim dean was a complete surprise—it came completely out of the blue...
...think they had a very close and deep intellectual bond,” said Michael B. G. Froman, Rubin’s former chief of staff at the Treasury. “Oftentimes it was sort of like a constant seminar back and forth...It was a rich intellectual partnership—I say partnership on purpose, because Bob very much treated Larry like a very important partner in everything...
...long, winless winter. The team did not see a win for almost two full months. The Crimson lost to teams that it had handily defeated earlier in the season such as Rensselaer and St. Lawrence.“As soon as December and exam time hit, we just sort of fell off our game,” Fraser said. “We played BC at home and got a spanking and just never recovered. A lot of guys on the team have speculated [about the losing streak], and I definitely think Harvard’s scheduling...