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...went to morning tea with some people in the lab. As we sat down with our drinks and snacks, the conversation drifted to comparisons between Harvard and Cambridge. A postdoc offhandedly commented that a friend of hers, a graduate student from America, knew less chemistry than the typical British undergrad because American students spend so much time taking classes unrelated to their major. That mild complaint sums up the American “liberal arts education” belief that a broad education is beneficial to the development of the student as a scholar and a citizen...
...That’s why I think people take the attitude, ‘no more undergrad housing,’” he adds...
...Still an undergrad, Nabokov thought through his options. “While the performer in me was sometimes tempted by a leading role in courtroom drama, the idealism I still harbored made me less and less sanguine about the profession’s prospects,” he writes...
...cautioned that locating undergrad Houses there—even as far north as the river—could impact the present-day community...
Levitt himself is a heavyweight—of Sumo-sized proportions—in the world of economics. A one-time resident of Wigglesworth H-entry, he excelled academically as an undergrad here, making Phi Beta Kappa his senior year. In 2003, he won the John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to the top American economist under age 40. Past winners include current Harvard faculty members Andrei Shleifer ’82, Martin S. Feldstein ’61, Dale W. Jorgenson, and Lawrence H. Summers...