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Modern conservatism began as a movement of dissident intellectuals. Richard Weaver wrote a book titled “Ideas Have Consequences.” Russell Kirk placed Edmund Burke in an American context. William F. Buckley famously said he'd rather be governed by the fir...

By Maureen O'Connor Saw her walking around with one of the head tour guides, and now she’s in the admissions office having an interview. Once I muster the courage (read: creepyness), I’ll take pictures from the bushes or save her from being run over by a bus or something.

 MA - Harvard officially targets 5-percent all but one of the past 10 years. Its $1.6 billion payout rate this year—while the largest in University history—still ...

By Charles Huckabee An article in Times Higher Education noted that several British institutions had slipped to lower positions this year, and raised concerns about the nation’s level of financial support for higher education. Of the list’s top 100 institutions, the article said, 17 are British, two fewe...

By STV Other unconfirmed reports placed Watson around campus at the Admissions Office, the Barker Center and Annenberg Hall — which is often said to evoke the Great Hall at Hogwarts, the fictional wizarding school at which Hermione studies.

 MA - “I’d seen her fence since she was about 12 years old,” says Peter A. Brand, the head coach of Harvard’s fencing team. Brand knew he wanted to recruit her, ...

By Justin Gardner Up is down. Left is right. Cats and dogs living together… He’s jumping ship from the USS Anti-Intellectual… [Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. When I first started in journalism, I worked at the National Review for Bill Buckley. And Buckley famously said he’d ra...

Making use of maneuvers like the Sicilian and the Poison Pond, five Harvard undergraduates took on a team from the University of Beijing in the one game of intellect that has transcended national borders for decades. But in the end, ...

Coming off of its best offensive performance of the year, the Harvard field hockey team traveled south to Providence on Saturday for a conference game against Brown. In another impressive showing, the Crimson (4-5, 2-1 Ivy) defeated the ...

By Andrew Tuch, co-editor, Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog, At Harvard, Strine concludes his grand tour through Delaware’s takeover law, vintage of 1985, by asking the class what overarching view of the corporation the cases take. Do they suggest that the corporation is primarily shareholder property that the board should aim to maximize or tha...

 MA - Voting faculty from all of Harvard’s Schools are eligible to apply for grants from the Milton Fund, which supports original research by Harvard faculty. ... Broad Institute awarded major grant MIT News all 2 news articles

 MA - A team of Harvard undergraduates has been selected to compete on the show’s college edition, which will air in mid-November. On Oct. 17, the team, ...

 MA - In the past few years, Harvard Summer School has increased its international presence to 25 programs run by Harvard faculty around the world, ... Study abroad students have lots to say, in lots of languages Harvard University Gazette all 2 news articles

 MA - This is partly achieved through simple steps such as walking with companions late at night or calling upon the complementary Harvard University Campus ... Watch Your Back Harvard Crimson all 2 news articles

Four superb players. Four seniors, no less. Four years spent together. Four unique sets of abilities that set them apart. All on one squad—the Harvard women’s soccer team. The numbers add up quite nicely for the Crimson’s fantastic foursome of defender Nikki Rhodes, forward Erin Wylie, and m...

 MA - Unsurprisingly, the news of so many failures has prompted some Harvard professors to begin hoping that undergraduates, who have been flocking to finance for ... Bankrupt Vs. Bailout WBZ Professors’ Opinions Split on Bailout Plan Harvard Crimson all 3 news articles

Prior to yesterday, the Harvard field hockey team (3-5, 1-1 Ivy) had scored four goals in its last four games. Last night alone, however, the Crimson racked up four goals in a convincing 4-1 win over Vermont at Jordan Field. “We came out with a great mental attitude, ready to play, ready to sco...

Last night at Blodgett pool, the Harvard men’s water polo team fell to No. 19 Brown 10-8 in overtime. The Crimson (2-5, 1-1 CWPA) stayed in the game with solid defense and a few timely goals, but in the end, missed opportunities prevented the team from getting the win. “We came out strong right f...

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Q&A with:Jay Light, Robert C. Merton, David Moss, Nicolas Retsinas, Clayton RosePublished:September 29, 2008Author:Martha Lagace Harvard Business School faculty members, looking at the U.S. financial crisis from a variety of disciplines, urged caution and prudent analysis in...

By Juli Min What would you do if one day you were walking along Harvard Yard and suddenly came upon THE MEMBER’S MANUAL OF THE OWL CLUB FOR MEN??!! (For those of you who don’t know, the Owl Club is one of eight final clubs at Harvard, boasting exclusive all-male membership, vast alumni connections, and...

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By Kerry Skemp Acclaimed novelist, Amherst College graduate, and Harvard philosophy student David Foster Wallace committed suicide this weekend. Infinite Jest, perhaps his best known work, was set in Boston. Evan Fleischer provides commentary on the tragic event.

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The case method has become synonymous with education for management. In fact, it was derived in the early 20th Century from training for the law at Harvard by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty. And in other forms, it serves the medical and other professions as well. A kin...

By Dan Haley According to The Harvard Crimson, this review was formed in response to an incident where university police stopped a young African-American man using tools to remove a lock from a bicycle. After a conversation “laced with obscenities,” the police learned the young man was the owner of t...

By David Giacalone ” . . . Interestingly, it was Harvard Law School, regarded by many as the apex of legal education (and located in the heart of liberal Cambridge) that early grappled with the appropriateness of punishing students for engaging in satire and parody. With the eyes of the higher-education elite w...

From the press release by Oxford Nanopore: Under the terms of this agreement with Harvard, Oxford Nanopore has exclusive rights to develop and commercialise a number of nanopore technological breakthroughs developed in the laboratories of three investigators at Harvard and their c...

By James Yu Ouch. Maybe Forbes has a point about the attention liberal arts colleges can provide their students, and about certain schools floating comfortably on their reputations, but saying Dartmouth students “are not particularly happy with the quality of their instruction” smells a bit fis...

By James Yu If we were all given a time machine and a fat envelope from Harvard College, chances are that many of us would take it. Because when it comes down to brand appeal, endowment size, and ability to inspire a tangled matrix of envy and admiration, Harvard is king. But since most of us will never [...]

By Kerry Skemp Monday, July 14, 7pm, Memorial Church (1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge), $5 Salman Rushdie, The Enchantress of Florence Monday, July 28, 7pm, Harvard Book Store The Harvard Square Book Circle July's read: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half of a Yellow Sun

By Sean Of course, certain individual faculty members at Harvard might be great teachers and care deeply about their students; but that’s a bonus, not a feature of the institution. (Harvey Mansfield, to a visiting colleague: “You should close your door. If you don’t, undergraduates may wander i...

By Adam Goldenberg Rich people and the money they give to rich universities Like it or not, we are the beneficiaries of our benefactors’ beneficience. BY Adam Goldenberg PUBLISHED: May 1 2008 - 1:14am TAGS: LOCAL alumni donations Earlier this week, David Rockefeller ’36 gave $100 million to Harvard. That’s...

The Voice aims to bridge the disconnect that exists between what people are interested in reading and what is being published. That is, we aim to address the lack of responsiveness that characterizes the current model of journalistic media – particularly, media within the Harvard commu...

Nice article by Behance Network founder Scott Belsky of Harvard Business School. Its not often that we get first hand accounts from entrepreneurs like this article in the Harbus (the student weekly at Harvard Business School). There is a lot to learn from active campus entrepreneurs like...

Harvard, Yale Struggle to Attract Low-Income Students With Aid  - Her mother drove her 50 miles to hear about free tuition offered by the Cambridge, Massachusetts, college, America's oldest, richest and most elite. Harvard ...

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Harvard Targets Middle Class With Student Cost Cuts (Update2)  - Dec 10, 2007 10 (Bloomberg) -- Harvard University will cut the costs of attending the Ivy League school by as much as 50 percent for families that earn $120000 to ...

Kirkland Student Dies  MA - Edwards was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the Harvard University Police Department. Firefighters were called to the scene to investigate the ... Kirkland Sophomore Found Dead at Medical School Harvard Crimson all 3 news articles

Bikini Politics, which boasts "the body-politic will never be the same," is run by Harvard grad student Paloma Zepeda. It's not so much a women's issues blog as a news blog in the inflection of women's issues. We all know what that means.

AMOR PERFECT UNION: The Core That You Need to Take  MA - Sep 17, 2007 By LOREN AMOR Back in May, the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences announced that it was replacing the long-standing Core Curriculum with a new ...

5. See generally Bishop Carleton Hunt, The Development of the Business Corporation in England, 1800-1867 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936). 14. Ibid., p. 35. See also Hunt, Development of the Business Corporation in England.

By James Joyner David Bell wonders, “Why don’t we study military history?” At Harvard this spring, for instance, only two of 85 history courses focus mainly on war. This is not surprising, because Harvard does not have a single specialist in military history among the 58 members of its history departmen...

By fire@thefire.org (Gary Shapiro) Mark Moyar doesn’t exactly fit the stereotype of a disappointed job seeker. He is an Eagle Scout who earned a summa cum laude degree from Harvard, graduating first in the history department before earning a doctorate at the University of Cambridge in England. Before he had even begun gradu...

 MA - Jamila R. Martin ’07—a leader of Harvard’s Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), which is currently waging its own campaign against Coke—said Michigan ...

 MA - a statement in November attacking Summers for purportedly leaking to The Crimson word of ... all that I have received so far,” Hoxby, a Harvard College professor ... Seven Undergraduates Chosen To Serve on Student Advisory Committee ... Harvard Crimson all 2 related

In Professor Christopher F. Noe’s accounting class at MIT, nearly a third of his students are from out of town—or, well, down the street. Indeed, roughly 45 Harvard students trekked down Mass. Ave. this semester to take “Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting” at MIT, according to th...

Despite traveling with only six wrestlers, the Harvard wrestling team finished at a respectable 18th out of 50 participating teams in the Midlands Championship, hosted by Northwestern at the Welsh-Ryan Arena just before the holiday weekend.

Student satisfaction with Harvard’s residential dining halls has reached an all-time high, yet students still hanker for greater menu variety, including more seafood and vegetarian entrees, according to the biannual survey conducted by Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS).

It took a near-perfect performance to finally end the Harvard men’s basketball team’s perfect start. Behind guard Justin Chirea’s 7-for-10 shooting from behind the arc, Central Connecticut State (CCSU) stormed past the Crimson (5-1) for an 87-79 victory on Saturday afternoon at Lavi...