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Ambitious plans for a young company, but with Veritas??s new status as an official Harvard group, resources and funding for the upcoming projects look promising. Although they are currently in the process of mining alumni, friends, the Undergraduate Council and potential sponsors for support, the Veritas managerial staff is confident that such an extensive fundraising process will not be necessary for every release...
...inaugural address, University President Lawrence H. Summers said: “What we do must never obscure what is most special and distinctive about universities like this one: that they are communities in which truth—veritas??is pursued first and last as an end in itself.” The University’s policy of secrecy and obfuscation at HUPD flies in the face of Summers’ words and Harvard’s guiding principles of openness and truth...
...Over the years, suspicious characters have absconded with practically every Commencement accessory, especially the school and House banners that hang in the Yard. “They cut the ropes or shimmy up the trees,” Remeika says. “With the ‘Veritas?? banner that hangs on Widener, we had to make up another one in four days. It’s 50 feet wide by 30 feet long. They said, ‘Oh my god!’ But they put all their people on it and got it done...
This cocksure biologist is wrong, of course. There are still many major unanswered questions in his field, and in all of science. But his bravado is an example of a larger problem, which I’ll call “veritas?? syndrome. Although the biologist had an especially virulent form, and the physicists during the late 19th century also suffered from it, this disease is usually so common that it’s nearly imperceptible. The main symptom is the unwillingness to acknowledge and celebrate one’s own ignorance. The children who wrote questions...
Indeed, at Harvard, the “veritas?? syndrome is an epidemic. A Harvard education means one learns a great many things, but never are students systematically taught the most inspiring examples of human ignorance. University President Lawrence H. Summers, for example, thinks students should know the difference between a gene and a chromosome. The Core program aims to instruct students in “ways of knowing,” and concentration tutorials initiate students into the methods of their chosen field. These are all laudable goals, yet they all focus on what is already known...