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Hornstine embodies the Harvard student Harvard students resent most, the assumptions that we struggle to debunk with Clark Kent humility back in our hometowns. She was a consummate do-gooder, a ready-made all-star at the Freshman Activities Fair who won tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships for her service. But just as the envious imagine when they see an Olympian resume like hers, she also took credit for the work of mortals. According to some of the people in charities she supported, they often spoke with her father, as reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer...
Halle said he intended the piece to debunk the “belief among those of Summers’ ilk that markets are the cure-all for everything...
...report by a researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) that claims to debunk an increasingly popular method of limiting college alcohol abuse has provoked vitriolic responses from an enclave of colleagues, stoking longstanding professional and personal antagonisms, some...
...study of the history of science was material for the classroom. Some study of the practice arts emerged at the recommendation of the 1955 Brown Report, a still-cited product of a committee on the visual arts at Harvard chaired by John Nicholas Brown. The Brown report attempted to debunk what it called “the myth of the inspired idiot [which] denies any serious intellectual component in artistic creation.” It was the suggestions of the Brown Report—and the convenient donation of money to build the Carpenter Center for the Visual Art?...
...Here, we debunk three of the biggest myths about life at Harvard...