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...Boston Globe and others who call for a fundamental change in Harvard’s investment philosophy as a result are themselves off the mark. Insisting upon conservative money management looks good now, but the benefit of hindsight will always change the evaluation of an investment. Smart management demands flexibility??this does not preclude conservative investment, but the willingness to take risks is a critical characteristic of successful money management. Such risk can, of course, generate significant return, as evidenced by the success of Harvard’s managers before the credit crunch. A bad episode (in this...
...When the Faculty changed the Core’s name back to General Education last spring, it literally wrote “flexibility?? and “diversity” into the programme from its inception. We shouldn’t fret that Harvard hasn’t totally dismissed the concept of an undergraduate curriculum; General Education has been gutted so profoundly of coherence and meaning that no two Harvard students need ever have anything in common ever again—ego, ambition, and Facebook notwithstanding...
...foresee nothing but inevitable failure in a program which tries to abolish all such intellectual parochialism when such sectarian loyalties abide so deeply. Despite our newfound skepticism, we hold fast to the most fundamental of our original complaints with the Core, and our original hopes for general education. Greater flexibility??including a vast number of departmental courses for Core, or General Education credit—still ranks highest on or list of priorities. And we remain optimistic that whatever finally emerges from the Faculty legislation can and should include such measures.Perhaps the most practical and most prudent proposal...
...premise that scientific developments are deeply contextual: political, economic, and social considerations determine the shape of the scientific world. This means that the concentration encompasses almost everything, and theses written in the department often resemble those from the History, Anthropology, Social Studies, or History and Literature departments. Flexibility??what a novel concept for Harvard!The concentration requires students to take science classes in one area of the student’s choosing, which can range from chemistry to mathematics to psychology; one can even choose a social science like economics. The rest of the concentration requirements...
...might not have recognized if they bumped into him in the Yard. In Crimson editorials, we chided him for not pushing the Corporation to pull all Harvard investments from South Africa, for fighting with the support staff union over their pay, and for wanting to retain “flexibility?? (which we assumed meant traditional exclusivity) when it came to affirmative action. In a bid to recreate some of the drama of the 1960’s sit-ins, a group of students tried to confront Bok at Massachusetts Hall over the university’s decision...