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...glass was not a crystal ball but a rearview mirror. Hollywood's gentry celebrated the past--the misty history of cinema, evoked with montages of ancient genres and deceased artistes. From the films honored, you would hardly have noticed that under the academy members' smartly shod feet, a seismic shift was taking place...
...similar shift in thinking is occurring among weight-loss researchers. For years, their best measure for how dangerous excess weight could be was body mass index (BMI), a formula that combined height and weight. A high BMI meant that you were carrying too much body mass for your height, putting you at risk of developing diabetes, hypertension, heart disease or stroke. The problem, as physicians quickly found out, was that body mass includes not just excess body fat but muscle as well. So fit people with dense muscle mass would consistently register as overweight and unhealthy. That led Dr. Jean...
...faculty members’ opportunities for tenure. “The institution has enacted a fairly significant way in which it understands the role and development of junior faculty,” Casey said, adding that he will help “make sure our policies reflect that institutional shift.” Casey studied law at Stanford and received a Ph.D from FAS’ history department in 2000. At Brown University, he served as assistant dean for academic plannin before arriving in the Yard. Casey said he learned at Brown that faculty involvement in the recruiting process...
...abandoning God just yet. In fact, one could regard the ostensible secularization of the late 19th century as more an affirmation of Christianity than an unequivocal rejection of religion. As George M. Marsden writes in “The Soul of the American University,” the shift was not occurring “in the name of an attack on Christianity but under the banner of its expansion.” In effect, he writes, whatever Harvard did simply was Christian.“A student in 1970 and a student in 1870 were educated in very different...
While some colleges have documented the increasing tendency of high schools to shift away from tabulating class rankings, Harvard does not document which schools or how many students provide rankings, according to McGrath Lewis...