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...Korean War working as an historian for the U.S. Joints Chiefs of Staff. In 1954, he arrived in Cambridge, where he would spend the rest of his professional life.As a young professor, May was known for his rhetorical talent and relaxed, accessible style. “He came to class with a scrap of paper, no formal lecture notes,” said Akira Iriye, May’s former student and colleague in the History Department. “He just simply went on talking without interruption. That was just overwhelming.” Iriye first worked with...
...behind-the-scenes labors like these that have occupied the Gen Ed committee over much of the last two years, as the College looks to turn the Gen Ed legislation passed by the Faculty in 2007 into a concrete set of courses for incoming freshmen in the class of 2013—all of whom will fall under the new program. The work thus far has been more struggle than seamless shift. There’s always an “enormous gap” between rules and practice, says the History department’s director of undergraduate studies...
...Harvard Business School this spring. By becoming a signatory, MBAs pledge, among other noble things, to “act with utmost integrity and pursue [their] work in an ethical manner.” As of yesterday, about 40 percent of the approximately 900 members in the HBS Class of 2009 had signed the online oath. But must MBAs really chose between greed and virtue...
University President Drew G. Faust will confer 6,777 degrees to the Class of 2009 and students of all of Harvard’s graduate schools in today’s 358th Commencement exercises. U.S. Secretary of Energy and Nobel Laureate Steven Chu will deliver the keynote address. University officials announced in April that Chu would be speaker, highlighting his commitment to pursuing alternative energy and reducing carbon emissions, both as Energy Secretary and in his career as an academic. Chu received a Nobel Prize in 1997 for his work cooling atoms using laser lights. The U.S. Senate confirmed...
...First translated into reality by President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, class of 1877, successive administrations have scrutinized the House system over the years to keep with Harvard’s aim of “forging a link between learning and living,” according to the Office of Residential Life’s Web site...