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Faust is set to succeed Lawrence H. Summers, who stepped down one year ago amid tensions with faculty. Derek C. Bok has served as Harvard’s interim president since last summer...
...wish to be pessimistic, but Harvard students have a long track record of not being able to identify fun even when its staring them in the face (were we the only ones who had tickets to the Wyclef show?) The only way for student social programming to succeed is if a massive, student-organized concert is successfully carried out. Maybe Prince is free for that...
...recent experience along the Gulf Coast has reconfirmed for me that we, as a united nation, have much work ahead if we truly dream of an America where all people have a chance to succeed. It is simply untenable to believe that the disparities in opportunity across racial lines will be eradicated by wishful thinking, or even by the election of a black president—which according to a recent Newsweek poll, only 56 percent of registered voters think is possible. In the end, the responsibility to equalize race in America, however difficult or humbling, lies upon...
...owner stood close by. The dog crept forward stealthily, guided by an instinct that years of leashes and dog food could never completely suppress. Meanwhile, a crowd of bystanders gathered, titillated, perhaps, by the prospect of bloodshed, but at the same time confident that the dog would not succeed. Minutes passed. And then, with a rapidity and ferocity that shocked the onlookers, the dog pounced, caught the squirrel by its bushy tail, and proceeded to tear the helpless rodent to pieces. We gasped, not as much from horror as from disbelief. This was not supposed to happen...
...seeking to find a successor to the aggressively pious Increase Mather, Class of 1656, the Corporation finally ended up in 1708 with John Leverett, Class of 1680, Harvard’s first lay president and its first lawyer. Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, who had hoped to succeed his father, was so furious at this rejection that he combined with like-minded dissidents to found a college in the Connecticut colony which would eventually settle at New Haven. The last clerical president, the Reverend Thomas Hill, Class of 1847, who resigned in 1868 to accept a better-paying...