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… Global Perspective At a time of war, shifting international alliances, and reassessment of the gains from "globalization" of the world economy, the … common to wage- and benefits-dominated service enterprises like educational institutions. Public colleges and …
Issue: May-June 2003
Concentration Complications
… Of all the difficult decisions one confronts as an undergraduate, the selection of concentration is perhaps the hardest. Fortunately, it is … intellectual work, and the deepest paradigm shifts often arise from interdisciplinary cross-pollination.” Through its …
Issue: November-December 2007
Remote-Controlled Library
… "I rarely have to go to the libraries anymore," says economics concentrator Radim … are using the libraries more heavily than ever. "The use of the building [Lamont Library] and interest in our … from home and more consultation of library materials rises from the deep ways in which electronic research tools …
A Real-World Response Paper
… One evening in the fall of 2006, Sangu Delle and Darryl Finkton sat talking on the steps of Weld Hall. In Ghana, Delle, whose father works for the …
Issue: November-December 2009
Jeannie Suk Gersen: Do Elite Colleges Discriminate Against Asian Americans?
… Decades of Supreme Court precedent says colleges can use affirmative action in admissions—but the court's new composition could change all that. In this … times the rate of everyone else. That group together comprises a third of each class. ALDCs are athletes, legacies, …
Yesterday's News
… 1920 Thanks to the Endowment Fund campaign, President Lowell approves a new salary scale for faculty members under which full professors will receive $6,000 to $8,000 annually (an increase … to $2,000). * * * A general examination in their field of study will henceforth be required of most seniors, to …
Harvard College Admits 772 Early Applicants
… Harvard College announced today that 772 of 4,231 applicants for nonbinding early admission had been accepted. The College reinstated early admission as an option for the class entering next fall , after a four-year period of offering only the common, regular admission procedure. …
Earl Derr Biggers
… I am quite sure that I never intended to travel the road of the mystery writer," wrote Earl Derr Biggers '07 … For I know now that he and I must travel the rest of the journey together." Biggers, whose Asian detective …
Why universities endure
… universities like Harvard are paradoxes. In many respects they are archaic. What other American institutions do … in the United States, the list overlaps with the list of the oldest universities in the U.S. to a remarkable … a project I had written on international financial crises. One student, asked to summarize and react to the …
Issue: November-December 2004
Arts and Sciences Aspirations
… The new academic structure created by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) in the summer of 2003 has yielded its twin first fruits. The divisional …
Issue: January-February 2005
Overheated Rhetoric
… Michael Crichton '64, M.D. '69, State of Fear (HarperCollins, $27.95). Michael Crichton's State of Fear is less a novel than a forum for the author to rail against what he perceives as … about 0.1 degree, between 1940 and 1970. Temperatures have risen steadily since 1970, climbing by as much as 0.5 degree …
Issue: March-April 2005
Yesterday's News
… 1915 Professor Theodore Richards becomes the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in chemistry. … x-rayed by clinicians from the Dental School in the wake of a general survey that indicated many students were in …
Issue: November-December 2005
Goal-Oriented
… year. "My mind was beginning to drift a bit," he says about the fall of 1965. "I mean, football was important, but I'd pick up … would read about the marchers, and I began to ask questions of myself. It wasn't that what I was doing wasn't worth …
Issue: November-December 2004
Family Moviemakers
… Every day in Dallas, people gather in Dealey Plaza to look up at the sixth floor of what once was the Texas School Book Depository. Some lay … For Michael H. Collins '71, J.D. '77, general counsel of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, these …
Issue: November-December 2003
Preservationist
… Every day in Dallas, people gather in Dealey Plaza to look up at the sixth floor of what once was the Texas School Book Depository. Some lay … For Michael H. Collins '71, J.D. '77, general counsel of the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, these …
Issue: November-December 2003