Word: academicization
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“[Harvard] made me more nerdy,” said Linhart, who was a History concentrator while at Harvard. “There was a part of me that extricated myself from the situation...to think how many armies marched across these very sands—it was...
The New York Times, captivated by the scent of blood, has suddenly taken an interest in Ivy League athletics. The paper-of-record’s customarily New York-centric sports pages do not usually pay the conference too much heed—even a “homer,?...
Bombs were already falling over Baghdad as Michael G. Ignatieff and Kanan Makiya sat having drinks in a Cambridge restaurant. It was March 19, 2003. The ultimatum President George W. Bush had given Saddam Hussein—leave Iraq or we invade—had just expired. The mood of...
Lucy Caldwell is mistaken to imply that rigorous academic standards and successful athletic teams are mutually exclusive. In the same March 2 New York Times article cited by Caldwell, Athletic Director Robert L. Scalise says he expects Harvard to maintain the best Academic Index in Ivy League men?...
First, her argument that Harvard would do well to accept mediocrity in athletics is ridiculous. Harvard’s core creed is really to strive for excellence in everything it does; it only admits the best, brightest, and most talented students in the world. I don’t see...