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...turned his attention to crafting his new-found interest: beer.FERMENTING DESIRESAfter returning from Australia at the beginning of his junior year, Eisele approached his House master in Cabot House about crafting independent study courses on the beer industry. First focusing on the chemistry of beer-making, Eisele developed a syllabus for an independent study course on the mechanics of brewing and the metabolic aspects of yeast activity.Under the tutelage of Senior Lecturer on Chemistry Gregory Tucci, Eisele began his first independent study course in the spring of his junior year, while also pursuing an unpaid internship at Harpoon Brewery.Eisele...
...envisioned myself devouring canonical books and Core classes with the same energy that I ended up directing towards music and writing. Instead, while I drilled on Wu-Tang and the New Journalism, I dropped a class because I saw Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa on the syllabus, there was a lot of speaking in kung-fu-related code with my radio station cohorts, and a little disdain for those who could only name most-popular Wu-Tang members Method Man, Ghostface Killah, and ODB.But for this show, my fellow Harvard students are part of the pre-concert hype process...
...four times as much media attention as the 2001 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which, shockingly, was overlooked by E! More than 1,000 people in the U.S. were trained to give Gore's presentation, 110,000 teachers downloaded a curriculum, and the movie became part of the syllabus in some schools in Britain. Three months after the film's U.S. release, California passed sweeping legislation to curb greenhouse gases. In the days leading up to the legislature's vote, one of the bill's co-authors hosted free screenings of the film. "For policymakers, the release...
...publisher makes profit, but simply as a personal judgment, I donate my personal royalties to charity.”Similarly, the professor who introduces thousands of Harvard undergraduates to what is just finds it unjust to profit from textbook sales.Michael J. Sandel, a professor of government, notes on the syllabus for his class, Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” that all proceeds from textbook sales will go to charity.Sandel said that he compiled the mandatory “Justice: A Reader” to bring down the costs of the required course materials from...
...bored with the flush language, infuriated by Odysseus’s ego and infidelity, and frustrated by what I saw as Penelope’s pathetic loyalty. I kept on putting down “The Odyssey” to sneak a peek at the next book on the syllabus, which I thought to be far more satisfying: “The Scarlet Pimpernel.”Luckily, my bad experience with “The Odyssey” hasn’t prejudiced me against all the novels with a Homerian essence. Before I was halfway through Bernhard Schlink?...