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Former history professor Gingrich misstates some facts about the 20th century. The Great Depression did not give rise to Nazism or Japanese militarism. It was World War I and its aftermath that set the stage for both Mussolini's march on Rome and Hitler's attempted putsch in Munich. By the time of the Depression, in 1929, the fascists had been in power for years, and the Nazis had been growing in strength for most of the decade. Furthermore, Gingrich's description of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff seems to imply it was part of F.D.R.'s New Deal. Smoot...
...charge lower room and board fees for students who will not be allowed to stay on campus for the two weeks in January, Hammonds said. The idea for a J-Term was first suggested by a 2003 committee charged with reevaluating the current University calendar, a group chaired by Professor Sidney Verba ’53. The Verba Committee developed a new calendar that consisted of two four-month semesters separated by a one-month break. But calendar reform subsequently fell by the wayside amid a focus on the pending curricular review and the controversies of the Summers administration...
Food experts dispelled the notion that locally-grown food is necessarily more costly and explained the recent interest in sustainability at a panel discussion yesterday hosted by the Harvard Culinary Society, Real Food Harvard, and the Food Literacy Project. Panelist and History of Science professor Steven Shapin, who teaches a class on the “History of Dietetics, noted the “immense popularity of food porn,” attributing the increased interest in ingredient origins to the media’s recent focus on the culinary world. “Fewer people sit down...
...despite the silence, administrators are not working without any planning assumptions, according to Engineering Professor Frederick H. Abernathy, who said that FAS Dean for Administration and Finance Brett C. Sweet has acknowledged an expectation that 14 percent of eligible staffers would take the package...
...Signature update! "Dean of Harvard College" now precedes "Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies" to reflect the shift in my priorities...