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...time when we also had hopes and dreams (also, for the hot breakfast). We surveyed some freshmen about their expectations of Harvard; they revealed that the “I’ll-explore-Boston” delusion is alive and well, the mere prospect of meeting a professor is exciting enough to warrant three exclamation points, and that it’s not worth even spelling out “Pfoho.” Below are some of their memorable answers...
...professor you’d like to meet: “No idea! A famous one! Maybe Diane Paulus!” “Niall Ferguson—the guy is a rock star.” “I’ve already semi-met him, but Howard Georgi. The beard is awe-inspiring...
Kelis may bring all the boys to the yard with her milkshake, but Professor Harvey G. Cox, the now-retired 9th Hollis Professor of Divinity, drew quite the crowd to Harvard Yard last week by unleashing a cow to graze on the big green to mark his retirement. “There is a long-standing legacy that the Hollis Professor had the privilege of grazing his cow in the Yard,” said Cox’s literary agent Donald R. Cutler. This became the inspiration for this event. “It was an old, old tradition...
...Harvey Cox, who recently retired as the Hollis Professor of Divinity, the oldest endowed chair in America, decided to exercise the traditional grazing rights that originally came with that position. As I watched Professor Cox and the Jersey cow named Faith reenact this venerable, and now slightly amusing, tradition from a window in University Hall, it seemed that he had provided the perfect metaphor for the purpose of the endowment...
...Foster went on to call out the policy’s failure to provide detainees with access to lawyers. We second her concern—this omission detracts from the legitimacy of any review process that will take place. As Western State University law professor David Frakt, a former Guantanamo defense counsel, complained about the administrations’ failure to grant detainees access to valid legal representation, “It is simply unrealistic to expect non-lawyers to zealously advocate on behalf of the detainees, or to be effective in gathering witnesses and evidence to challenge the lawfulness...