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Rate The GOP's class war before Palin

Original at San Diego Union Tribune external link    19 hours ago

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...

Rate Emma Watson Finishes Touring Harvard, Gives Yale a Whirl

Original at IvyGate external link    Thu, Oct 9    3 related articles

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.

Rate Rep Pushes Payout Bill

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Wed, Oct 8

 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 ...

Rate American Institutions Top British List of World's Best International Universities

Original at Chronicle of Higher Education external link    Wed, Oct 8

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...

Rate Emma Watson Spotted Touring Harvard's Most Potteresque Facilities [Higher Education]

Original at Defamer external link    Wed, Oct 8

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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.

Rate En Garde, World

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Wed, Oct 8

 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, ...

Rate David Brooks Slams Palin, Bush; Praises Obama

Original at Donklephant external link    Wed, Oct 8

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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...

Rate Harvard Chess Club Ties Beijing Team

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Sun, Oct 5

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, ...

Rate Solid All-Around Effort in First Road Win

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Sun, Oct 5

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 ...

Past Two Weeks

 

Rate Leo Strine’s Marvelous Adventures

Original at blogs.law.harvard.edu external link    Sat, Oct 4

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...

Rate Milton Fund offers unique opportunities for faculty

Original at Harvard University Gazette external link    Fri, Oct 3

 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

Rate Harvard Students Ready To Lock Horns on Family Feud

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Thu, Oct 2

 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, ...

Rate Students Look Abroad at Fair

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Thu, Oct 2

 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

Rate Dissenting Opinion: Safety After Dark

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Wed, Oct 1

 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

Rate Super Seniors' Superb Season

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Wed, Oct 1

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...

Rate Wall Street Meltdown Meltdown

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Wed, Oct 1

 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

Rate Harvard's Offense Catches Fire in Win

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Wed, Oct 1

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...

Rate The Crimson Fall to No.19 Brown in OT Battle

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Wed, Oct 1

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...

Rate How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

Original at HBS Working Knowledge external link    Wed, Oct 1

Editor's note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing KnowHow, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.) Join the discussion on Harvard Business Publishing.

Rate Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

Original at HBS Working Knowledge external link    Mon, Sep 29

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...

Past Month

 

Rate Lost and Found: The Owl Final Club Member’s Manual

Original at IvyGate external link    Mon, Sep 22

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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...

Rate First Look: September 16, 2008

Original at HBS Working Knowledge external link    Tue, Sep 16

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Rate Bostonist Books: On David Foster Wallace and Self-Indulgence

Original at Bostonist external link    Mon, Sep 15

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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.

September of 2008

 

Rate First Look: September 9, 2008

Original at HBS Working Knowledge external link    Tue, Sep 9

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Rate Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

Original at HBS Working Knowledge external link    Fri, Sep 5

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...

Rate HUPD White: Harvard Campus Police Accused of Racial Profiling

Original at IvyGate external link    Thu, Sep 4

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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...

August of 2008

 

Rate Opinion: did Harvard Law kill parody, satire & humor?

Original at blogs.law.harvard.edu external link    Wed, Aug 27

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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...

Rate DNA Sequencing Technology from Oxford Nanopore

Original at Medgadget.com external link    Fri, Aug 22

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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...

Rate Ivy League Scores Low in Forbes’ College Rankings

Original at IvyGate external link    Fri, Aug 15

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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...

Rate British Journalist Attends HBS, Tastes Frat Life

Original at IvyGate external link    Thu, Aug 7

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 [...]

Year 2008

 

Rate Book It: July Book Events

Original at Bostonist external link    Sun, Jun 29

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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

Rate The Purpose of Harvard is Not to Educate People

Original at Cosmic Variance external link    Fri, May 30

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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...

Rate Rich people and the money they give to rich universities | The Harvard Voice

Original at theharvardvoice.com external link    Tue, May 20

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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...

Rate The Harvard Voice

Original at theharvardvoice.com external link    Tue, May 20

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...

Rate Behance Network — Harvard Business School

Original at Campus Entrepreneurship external link    Tue, May 13

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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...

Rate Harvard, Yale Struggle to Attract Low-Income Students With Aid - Bloomberg

Original at Bloomberg external link    Sun, May 11

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 ...

Rate Opinion: First Look: April 29, 2008

Original at HBS Working Knowledge external link    Tue, Apr 29

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Rate Harvard Targets Middle Class With Student Cost Cuts (Update2) - Bloomberg

Original at Bloomberg external link    Mon, Dec 10

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 ...

Rate Kirkland Student Dies - Harvard Crimson

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Mon, Dec 3

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

Rate Opinion: Harvard Political Blogs: Crazy Informative, With a Touch of Anti-Semitism

Original at IvyGate external link    Mon, Nov 5

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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.

Rate AMOR PERFECT UNION: The Core That You Need to Take - Harvard Crimson

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Mon, Sep 17

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 ...

Rate Opinion: Best Of: Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

Original at HBS Working Knowledge external link    Thu, Aug 23

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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.

Rate Opinion: The End of Military History?

Original at Outside The Beltway | OTB external link    Wed, May 9

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...

Rate Opinion: Mark Moyar, historian of Vietnam, finds academe hostile to a hawk

Original at FIRE external link    Mon, Apr 30

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...

Year 2006

 

Rate University of Michigan Retracts Coke Ban

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Wed, Apr 12

 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 ...

Rate Summers Critics to Advise Dean Search

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Wed, Apr 12

 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

Rate For Harvard, No Accounting 101

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Tue, Jan 3

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...

Rate Harvard Finishes No. 18 in Midlands Championship, Ogunwole No. 4 in Heavyweight Division

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Tue, Jan 3

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.

Year 2005

 

Rate Student Satisfaction With Dining Highest Ever, Survey Shows

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Tue, Dec 20

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).

Rate Blue Devils Cool Harvard’s Streak

Original at Harvard Crimson external link    Sun, Dec 4

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...


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