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...Harvard University Marching Band—which set the pace with a rousing rendition of the Harvard Fight Song—dancers, jugglers and student performers wound their way down Mass. Ave. and through the Yard, finishing their lap before a make-shift stage set up in front of the John Harvard statue...
...dreams before my helpless sight / He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. / If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace / Behind the wagon that we flung him in, / And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, / His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin….My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory / The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori...
...always positively. In Orange Crushed, she indulges in digressions on the relative merits of the Gini coefficient as a measure of inequality and the application of the Herfindahl index to emerging Eastern European economies. At some point, readers will likely need to consult their Ec 10 notes to keep pace with the characters’ academic repartee...
Thanks to the efforts of private donors, however, U.S. research into the creation of new stem cell lines has continued—albeit at a reduced pace. Harvard, to its credit, has led this push. In March, Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Douglas A. Melton made 17 new stem cell lines freely available for private use. And last week, Harvard unveiled plans for a new stem cell center aimed at coordinating the University’s research in the area. Funded privately to circumvent government restrictions, the center will help to quicken the pace of American stem cell research...
...this line of research, which involves potential cures for life-threatening diseases, pace matters. Stem cell research may be the key to understanding and treating many currently untreatable maladies like Lou Gehrig’s disease, diabetes and spinal cord injuries. Harvard’s vision—and decision to forge ahead despite short-sighted federal restrictions—is good for the University and good for humanity...