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...Though Sweet’s mother says her son often keeps in touch, she notes that he is careful to keep quiet details of his job at Harvard, explaining that there are “things that are relatively private in his job—he keeps it that way, so there’s a lot we probably don’t know...
...give more of ourselves to our communities, to our workplaces, to our families,” Rajan said. “Let it go forth from this time that we are a class that is ready to serve.” Dimon also began his remarks with a touch of humor, joking “I just want to make it absolutely clear that I was at Citigroup 10 years ago,” referencing the financial services company that had to be bailed out by the federal government last year. His speech included a mix of practical career advice...
...addition, from the point of view of bringing the Harvard community together, these areas have the obvious benefit of requiring input from many—indeed most—of our faculties across the University. As intellectual matters, they touch on everything from basic research and scholarship to challenging and important applications that engage our professional schools. The issues presented by global health, energy, and the environment also cross the boundaries of the natural sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. For example, the dissemination of antiretroviral drugs in South Africa has, until recently, been inhibited by benighted leadership...
Around the time our predecessors marched on Harvard Yard to protest that war, one of the finest literary figures of the century, Jorge Luis Borges, was at Harvard to deliver the prestigious Charles Eliot Norton lectures. Judging by their content, one could think Borges was not in touch with the profound transformations occurring all around him—rather than talking politics, he devoted the lectures to his recurrent literary themes: remembering and forgetting, poetry and metaphor, the craft of verse...
...cole Polytechnique invites about a hundred of the most important companies in Europe to campus for their yearly job fair. I was able to interact with recruiters from over a dozen different firms, and many of these asked for a copy of my resume and that I keep in touch. Although I had scarcely given the option any serious thought prior to my time abroad, it is now more probable than not that I will end up working in Europe for a while after graduation...