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...colleges—at least the elite “liberal arts” colleges like Harvard—recognize no such duty to ensure the content if not the quality of their programs. Employers value liberal-arts graduates, by and large, not for their knowledge but for their intellect??guaranteed by selective admissions criteria. And the allure of places like Harvard, to most aspiring high-schoolers, is not so much the quality of the education, but the social status its prestige grants and the economic opportunity its degrees ensure...
Described as “the king of polls” and an “incandescent intellect?? by the press, and boasting such clients as Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, and Bill Gates, Penn is the CEO of Burson-Marsteller, a world-class public relations firm, and president of Penn, Schoen, and Berland Associates, a public opinion polling company he started while at Harvard. After helping both Bill and Hillary Clinton in their past campaigns, he served as chief strategist for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign until his company’s work with the Colombian...
...crawling with guys who will find your mind irresistible,” they told me. “You will be in great demand!” I arrived on campus filled with excitement. So much for all those guys who were “intimidated by my intellect??! So much for romantic evenings ruined by careless references to Charles Martel! That surely wouldn’t be a problem at Harvard...
...gulf I perceive between the athletes and myself the result of some fundamental change in intellect??in rapidly amassing vast amounts of knowledge. I am not arrogant enough to think that my brain has undergone, in just three years, a fundamental retooling. I have not ascended from pathetically low ”high school” level of intellect to the “college” one. No, I feel different from the rowers simply because I have been around for a bit longer and, in that brief period of time, have packed more than my share...
When in the Course of academic events, it becomes necessary for one student body to renounce the curricular restraints which have devastated their schedules, and to assume among the students of the earth, the freedom and scholastic choice to which the Laws of Intellectualism and of Intellect??s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of the Adminstration requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the renunciation...
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