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Assistant Professor of Government William G. Howell, who teaches Gov. 1540: “The American Presidency,” used rankings of Presidents compiled by C-SPAN surveys of historians and citizens in order to find the correlation between a President’s ranking and whether or not he attended Harvard...
...Denver. The U.S. spent billions of dollars to figure out a way to mine the stuff, then gave up and walked away. Why Canada has succeeded at creating a homemade source of alternative fuel while America has failed to tap its resources is testimony to Washington's short attention span when it comes to energy concerns...
...many of us, these four years, bookended by high school overachievement and grueling ascents to professional success, will be the only significant span of time when we aren’t bound to impress anybody. We ought not to squander it. Straight out hedonism is seldom advisable—but a lack of self-consciousness is. When George Plimpton ’48 died last week, obituaries didn’t mention his GPA, or the brilliance of his pronouncements in section. They did include a description of his disrupting a Lexington ceremony honoring Paul Revere’s ride...
...students are looking at the “workload” and “difficulty” ratings of any Core course, and saving their energies for concentration courses that ultimately count in their GPAs. Harvard actually facilitates this process, making sure that a broad range of courses span the curriculum, some of which seem particularly targeted to Government or Pre-Med and so on. So, in picking a Lit and Arts B course, a musically illiterate student like me might well select a course like Ingrid Monson’s Jazz course because it has less...
Schweitzer came alive in the fourth game, pushing the team along during two separate sequences. Schweitzer contributed two kills, freshman outside hitter Katie Turley-Molony had two and the duo blocked three Northeastern kill attempts to record seven points in an eight-point span, giving the Crimson a 17-14 lead. After the Huskies stormed back to take a 25-23 lead, Schweitzer registered three straight kills, swinging the momentum back to Harvard and helping it take the game...