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Organized by the Harvard Square Business Association, the Bookish Ball featured a “Passport to Wisdom?? stroll, in which visitors could receive “Stamps of Wisdom?? from local book stores, while also enjoying discounts and refreshments...
Nevertheless, there is an underlying sentiment in these lamentations—however awfully distorted and misdirected—with which one can sympathize, something completely absent amongst the counter-complainers, who are no less obnoxious. Where were they–given their claims of moral superiority and wisdom??when Harvard lost over 350 million dollars in a hedge fund last year? Or when the administration breached its contract with its workers? Of course, they were too jaded to care. For these people, it seems that it’s the feeling of superiority over their classmates that matters...
...started in pinstripes, most notably as the founder of the private equity firm Bain Capital. His eye for markets—invisible to conventional wisdom??spurred him to back hopeless startups like Staples, Domino’s Pizza, and Sports Authority. CEO Romney grew an initial $37 million and seven-person staff to an impressive $4 billion and 115-person staff. During his fourteen-year tenure, Romney averaged an annual internal rate of return on realized investments of 113 percent...
...stings when you stick your hand in a nest of fire ants. This nugget of wisdom??and other lessons for aspiring naturalists—were on display at last night’s showing of a documentary about two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard professor Edward O. Wilson. Wilson, who has been at Harvard for 56 years, is most famous for his work as an entomologist and his advocacy for the environment. The film featured reenactments of Wilson’s boyhood, including the incident with a pinfish that left him permanently blind in one eye. The accident...
...waiter in Leverett before the war, a return to the academy marked a welcome transition. He remembers walking to and from class after his postwar return and noticing the inscription on Dexter gate, which tells entrants to the Yard to “Enter to grow in wisdom?? and people leaving to “Depart to better serve thy country and thy kind.” “I thought that was appropriate,” he says.In the end, Harvard had an indomitable advantage in winning its returning students over to its more inclusive ways...