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...awards commemorate Joseph R. Levenson ’41, a history professor who taught at the University of California until his death in a boating accident...
Indeed, at Harvard, the “veritas” syndrome is an epidemic. A Harvard education means one learns a great many things, but never are students systematically taught the most inspiring examples of human ignorance. University President Lawrence H. Summers, for example, thinks students should know the difference between a gene and a chromosome. The Core program aims to instruct students in “ways of knowing,” and concentration tutorials initiate students into the methods of their chosen field. These are all laudable goals, yet they all focus on what is already known...
...plays each year, as well as a small selection of limited-enrollment courses offered by the non-degree granting Dramatic Arts Committee. And without a dance concentration, dancers have instead gravitated toward Expressions, Harvard Ballet Company and the many other student-based dance ensembles, as well as dance courses taught through the Office for the Arts (OFA). But Harvard provides few academic options—beyond the complicated procedure of designing a special concentration—for the many students who wish to make the arts central in their curricular as well as extracurricular plans...
...relationships Epstein has formed inside and outside the scientific community are particularly impressive, given that he is self-taught and does not even hold a bachelor’s degree...
...year old Epstein was born into a working-class Brooklyn family, and attended the city’s Lafayette High School. In his early ’20s, he taught mathematics and physics to high school students at The Dalton School, an elite Manhattan preparatory school...