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...historic pubs and breweries in London, Manchester and other locations. Participants learn the finer points of wheat beers, dark lagers, old ales and so on. "Our beer choices are global, and our intention is to let anyone who comes to our courses understand beer-not brands," says co-founder Rupert Ponsonby...
...Crimson Reading, allows prospective buyers to compare textbook prices online. ISBN numbers are the ten-digit numbers attached to each book to serve as unique identifiers. “We need that database of ISBN numbers to keep the Web site running,” Crimson Reading co-founder Tom D. Hadfield ’08 said. And in fact it was Hadfield himself who, together with a few friends, spent much of August in the Coop bookstore, using notepads to record ISBN information for nearly 2,500 textbooks to get the site up and running in September. With...
...Canadian universities on their environmental sustainability practices, examining both endowment and campus initiatives. Dartmouth College, Stanford University, and Williams College also averaged an A-, the highest average awarded. “The goal of the report is to spark discussions,” said Mark Orlowski, who is the founder and executive director of the institute. “It’s a way to measure current activity and encourage and create opportunities for innovations.” Orlowski also said the study findings indicate that endowment size has nothing to do with sustainability. “Most...
Historian David Blackbourn introduces you to Max Weber, the German founder of sociology. Learn what your “life chances” are (and be grateful that a Harvard diploma boosts your “social status”). Even if you aren’t fascinated by the three-component theory of social stratification, you might feel like a genius throughout the semester if you manage to interpret Weber’s work; and that just might be worth the effort...
...greatest playing of the Game ever.So maybe my experience pales in comparison to the Greatest Game. So what? That Blue Devil was so cool. We need something cool like that. But way, way cooler.Let me be the first to start the debate. Let me be the founder of the great mascot rally of our time. I will begin at the beginning—John Harvard. Did you know he is technically our mascot? But he would never work: not enough pizzazz, remember? I mean, he died of pneumonia. We need something invincible.Then there rumor turned mascot—the Cantab...