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After five years in one of the world??s most venerated leadership positions, Harvard’s 27th president will officially step down at midnight tonight, concluding a tenure marked by controversy and strife. He will hand over the University’s reins to Derek C. Bok, Harvard’s president from...
...pride rears its head is the week of the Harvard-Yale football game when Harvardians break their habits and get decked out in pure crimson.While Germans contend with the ghosts of a totalitarian regime in their recent past, Harvardians suffer from the embarrassment of riches, as students at the world??s most famous university. But the fact of their sheepishness is the same; for fear of being prejudged, each conceals his affiliation to a group with a prominent place in popular imagination.Are these fears justified? Almost certainly not. As Harvard students learn during Harvard-Yale weekend...
...takes more than a History degree from one of the world??s top Universities to get a ticket for the (very) limited performances of Alan Bennett’s latest, “The History Boys.” After reading at both Cambridge and Oxford, Bennett’s first stage play—“Forty Years On”—debuted back the revolutionary days of ‘68. However, various critics have considered his recent take on elite schools and education the pinnacle of his career. Judging by the widespread...
...contact with our alma mater, “The History Boys” becomes much more than a 2004 London West End hit transplanted onto Broadway. In the context of the Thatcherite eighties, the play focuses around eight students from a north English grammar school seeking admission to the world??s most exclusive and competitive educational institutions. Pressured from the school administration and attracted primarily by the behemoth of reputation, they linger at school beyond their final examinations for extra classes in preparation for admission interviews and papers...
...Montebello’s formal preparation for curating one of the world??s most prominent museums can be traced back to Harvard, where he majored in art history and focused on the artist Delacroix...