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...York University (NYU) Invitational on Saturday, the Harvard men’s fencing team vanquished an old rival and climbed to No. 3 in the national rankings, while the women’s team fared well until facing Penn State...
...Jumbos always carries the tone of a warm-up. “I pretty much expected that we were going to do well,” Harvard coach Peter Brand said, adding, “I think it was a good warm-up for the coming weekend at NYU, where we are going to have some really tough opposition. So this was a fairly good start.” This season, even more so than in years past, the women needed the practice. With the loss of junior foil fencer Emily Cross, the team boasts three freshmen in the weapon...
...hand, this is typical Harvard self-congratulation,” said Anne Lounsbery, assistant professor of Russian and Slavic Studies at NYU and a former graduate student in the program. “But you come because it is great content—the level of discourse is guaranteed to be high, even if it’s self-consciously high...
...campus housing, where students would live in the city and connect with their teachers only at lectures. Instead, Oxford and Cambridge sought to develop residential colleges—what the founders of Harvard would later call “a real college” instead of the NYU-like nonsense—to foster student-faculty interaction...
...case against Shleifer in 2000 and dropped criminal charges. A mixed blessing. Nevertheless, Shleifer seemed to barrel onward. He maintained his position at Harvard and in 2003 was even offered a top spot at NYU’s Stern School of Business. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that NYU offered Shleifer something to the tune of half a million dollars to defect, though the article failed to mention if that was an annual salary figure or a hefty lump sum. When he turned down the offer that year, the then-chair of the Economics Department, Oliver S. Hart, wrote...