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...growing trend among female students at Harvard, Yale, and “other top colleges” to forgo ambitious career plans—or any career at all—in favor of raising children and running a family. The article noted that “young women today?? are increasingly seeing their role as mothers as paramount, exploring flexible or scaled-back work schedules to reflect these priorities. Although the article was widely discussed on campus, it was hardly original. In truth, rarely does a week go by without a new newspaper or magazine story...
...have the unique opportunity to reprise their past roles and in many ways are the perfect fits for their respective jobs. Each has attained enough gravitas to command the respect of the entire University community, and each has a track record of creating the type of collegial atmosphere that today??s challenges call for. Furthermore, neither has any interest in staying on beyond a year, allowing them to clear the ground for the next guard without forcing the hand of their successors.While a year of reflection and smoothing over is badly needed, if next year is that...
...reconstruction of the unity of knowledge” in a coruscating 2004 essay. He writes, “[T]he complexity of the world requires us to have a better understanding of the relationships and connections between all fields.” A society more fragmented than today??s, Gregorian argues, has more of a dependence on experts and more of a temptation to eschew judgment in favor of accepted opinion. A fragmented knowledge defers answers to the “big questions” because it has decided that no one is qualified to answer them...
...little changes at Harvard, as these selected editorials from the 1955-56 school year attest. Typewriters may have turned into laptops, Ike and Nixon into Bush and Cheney, and the Student Council into the Undergraduate Council, but the challenges and issues facing Harvard and the nation today??and the morsels of advice given to incoming freshmen—are shockingly similar to 50 years ago. So take a glimpse at the issues, the opinions, the life, and the students that animated Harvard...
...Today??s Harvard emphasizes the former; just as the curricular review aims to “open new opportunities for student choice” in the courses they take, the administration overseeing student life seems motivated mostly by a desire to satisfy student demands, not by a desire to fulfill one vision of what a college should...