Word: traditionsã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under the “Cultural Traditions?? requirement, students would study how art throughout history impacts society today. “The Ethical Life,” similar to a moral reasoning requirement, has students study both ethical theory and concrete ethical problems...
...describe your tenure in three words? LHS: I’ll leave the description and assessment to others. I always thought Harvard’s traditions??the Harvard of common rooms and paintings on walls and House masters—could take care of itself. My job was to be with the Harvard of the future: the undergraduates, the post-docs with their lights on at two in the morning, the assistant professors sending e-mails with 3 a.m. timestamps. It was the future that I tried to be with...
...immerse ourselves in traditions??like today’s rites—to convince ourselves that there exists some continuity between our world and the world that came before. But when the world as we know it shrinks away and leaves in its place a vast fog of uncertainty and instability, our traditions fail us. The bells ring hollow...
...gets as giddy as a schoolboy while he recalls the audacity of the whole endeavor when it got started: “Traditions??it’s very rare that people get to sit down and create them. But we just sat down and said, ‘we’re gonna have a parade, a barbecue, a performance fair…why don’t we take Quincy Street and use every available performance space?’” Somehow, the idea worked, and, 13 years later, Arts First is the defining artistic...
While the Latin oration is one of Harvard’s older traditions??dating back to 1642—Gillespie said that her oration will create a very timely metaphor. She plans to compare her experience at Harvard to a game of baseball...