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...government studyof mutual funds revealedthat they were, on average, average, or worse. This was an affront to many on Wall Street who assumed that, of course, professional investors beat the market. It was left to legendary investor Benjamin Graham to explain in a speech to securities analysts that "neither the financial analysts as a whole nor the investment funds as a whole can expect to 'beat the market,' because in a significant sense they (or you) are the market...
...copying ISBNs in the fall, they never gave him the “explicit permission” to write them down. “The thing that’s funny about it is that I personally had interactions with the employees there,” said UC Representative Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10. “And one of them actually asked if we needed anything and another said, ‘Oh, so you’re finally getting them online.’ So it’s not that we were...
It’s not the first time that the four-decade-old Institute of Politics has sported a high-profile fellows class. Recent resident fellows have included longtime Washington Post editor Benjamin Bradlee ’42, Democratic political operative Joe Trippi, and former professional wrestler and Minnesota Governor Jesse “The Body” Ventura. Fellows lead semester-long study groups that meet weekly and are open to all students at the University...
When the Rhodes committee in Zimbabwe awarded Benjamin L. Robinson ’06-’07 a Rhodes Scholarship last month, he became the eighth Harvard student this year to receive the prestigious academic award. The Rhodes Scholarship, created from the endowment of Cecil J. Rhodes, a British philanthropist who earned much of his fortune through colonial activities in Africa, provides Scholars with funding for two to three years of study at Oxford University in England. Robinson, a joint Social Studies and Germanic Languages and Literatures concentrator, plans to study Philosophy at Oxford, even though he says that...
...would be separate from Crimson Cash—a debit account that students can access with a swipe of their ID card—because the UC wants to ensure that the allotted sum will go “specifically toward printing,” according to UC member Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10.Schwartz co-sponsored the legislation with representatives Alyssa Q. Colbert ’10 and Tom D. Hadfield ’08.The potential transition would not be too difficult to implement because “the technology infrastructure is already in place...