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...might deem this ignorance, or even arrogance. But I wouldn’t guilt you into thinking similarly. Whether you are at Harvard, Ohio State, or that coastal idyll we Cantabridgians call Stanford, I admit that now is the only time we have to pursue something like study abroad...
...post on the popular website IvyGateBlog.com funneled more and more viewers to Pappas’ sites. “That was really the first thing that got it going,” he says. Since then, he’s rolled out versions at Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Dartmouth, Stanford, and UPenn. But does he have time to read all the scandalous posts? “I don’t really keep up with the conversations and things,” he says. “So much going on, I can’t keep...
This would not be an avant-garde move, but an attempt to keep up with the times. Universities as varied as Stanford, the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Wellesley already have PE departments. Nor would a PE department and a requirement be redundant: Harvard’s current Department of Athletics offers only a limited number of recreational classes. Currently, students are not required to participate in any activity—but research shows that they should...
Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow, Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy, University of Cambridge head Alison F. Richard, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons, and Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman were among the prominent figures in higher education nominated for Harvard’s top post...
...news analysis in The New York Times, “A Matter of Definition: What Makes a Civil War, and Who Declares It So?” Wong reports that most American scholars of civil war are in agreement with James Fearon, a political scientist at Stanford, who says, “I think that at this time, and for some time now, the level of violence in Iraq meets the definition of civil war that any reasonable person would have...