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This would all be of only passing interest if the British - and those such as Americans who, knowingly or not, trace their own systems of government to the ones the British established - had not taken it upon themselves of late to lecture the rest of the world on the wonders of democracy. The great men of 17th century Britain knew better. Forever arguing, disputing, pamphleteering, they were tormented by their own imperfections and those of the messy designs upon which they somehow built a functioning state. Humility, admission of error, a recognition that no form of government is without fault...
...shown, once and for all, is that only a thoughtless student would leave it up to an institution like Harvard to decide what her education means.It is still possible that Gen Ed will spark some worthwhile spring-cleaning and a proliferation of creative, new courses. But, either way, upon graduation, the onus is upon students to decide what our education means as a whole—and to realize that, far from being some kind of grand fortress as its end, a Harvard degree is just one of many strange, blinking lighthouses we will sail past...
...Holyoke Center working as the director of Harvard University Health Services. When Rosenthal first moved into Harvard Yard, he was unsure if he wanted to be a doctor at all. It would take the death of a close friend to convince Rosenthal to pursue a career in medicine. Instead, upon moving into his Thayer Hall residence, Rosenthal imagined himself becoming a teacher after graduation. Sylvester Sterioff, Jr. ’59, Rosenthal’s freshman year roommate—who is now a doctor—does not recall talking about medicine with Rosenthal while the two lived together...
...loved working with students.During the years Ostriker served as Princeton’s provost, he oversaw the University’s push to reduce student loans, an achievement he took pride in, according to both Socolow and Ostriker’s daughter.After stepping down from his post in 2001 upon Shirley M. Tilghman’s selection as Princeton’s president, Ostriker returned to Cambridge University to assume the prestigious position of the Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy.He returned to Princeton in 2005, and last year was elected the treasurer of the National Academy of Sciences...
...time Szanton graduated, the University had embarked upon two large-scale constructions to make room for the arts at Harvard—the Loeb Drama Center, begun in 1959 and completed in 1960 and the Carpenter Center, planned in 1959 and completed in 1963. These two projects, part of an overall plan to increase the presence of art on campus, gave student artists the space to thrive. But as the school built homes for the arts in brick and concrete, some students feared that creativity itself, under the University’s watch, would be rigidified...