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...smaller scale. RG theory implies that, with enough computer power, it would be possible to describe such large-scale phenomena as the boiling of water in terms of the interactions between fundamental subatomic particles.“Wilson is famous for understanding how, in transitions from one phase of matter to another, there are quantities that are completely independent of the details of the states of matter,” says Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi ’67. He explains that Wilson’s work was valuable not only in the field of phase changes...
...decision to disband the unit in 1957.12/13: $4.5M from the Ford Foundation will be used to raise faculty salaries. Four days later, a DuPont donation of $30,000 to the University is made for graduate education fellowships and chemistry research.12/19: The divinity school initiates second phase of a fundraising drive with $4M, receives $500,000 in a Sealantic grant. A day later, Harvard’s formula for determining financial need goes into nation-wide operation.2/1: Mark DeWolfe Howe ’28, professor of Law and Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government, denounce at a State House...
...four-year undergraduate program. Canadian university students frequently take five or more years to complete a bachelor’s degree, while American students are often discouraged from doing so by college rules. The reason is simple; in this country, college, like high school, is understood to be a phase in one’s education of a prescribed length, undertaken with peers who are similar in age and inexperience. Engineering programs, which can force an added semester—or more—on their students, take a bite out of this part of the college philosophy.By creating...
...imminent Harvard graduate, pondering what to do with the phase of life that starts with graduation and ends with death, might find the beginnings of guidance in the directive written atop Dexter Gate. Sure to be repeated ad nauseum in the coming weeks (its biweekly appearance in this column’s title was just the beginning), it reads, “Depart to serve better thy country and thy kind.” Seeking further guidance, the graduate would find none; the instruction offers little insight into how, exactly, we are supposed to “serve better?...
...project I toiled on now enters a phase of legal wrangling whereby incumbent trustees search for a way to keep it off the ballot—a nuisance that has called me back to Montana from Harvard to parse the frustratingly dull technicalities that surround such issues—I feel remarkably unredeemed...