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...democratic impulses, for the most part the supposed intellectual quality of the Obama administration elicits praise and not blame. For in America, the aristocracy—at least, as it considers itself—is in fact a meritocracy, since the contemporary arbiters of prestige—the elite universities??are open to anyone with a record of high achievement. Obama, eschewing party hacks and otherwise unenlightened loyalists, has issued in a new era of American meritocracy—where SAT scores and not cronyism will figure most decisively...
...While Harvard has largely avoided provoking graduate students so far, other private universities??including Yale, where graduate students have already unionized—have seen fierce protests and strikes by graduate students in the past...
...decline, which amounts to more than $8 billion, is larger than the endowments of all but four other universities??Yale, Princeton, Stanford...
...Daniel P. Schrag, director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment, affirmed Gore’s statement that universities??especially Harvard—will play a critical role in addressing climate change...
...shape theater based on student desires,” says HRDC president Allison B. Kline ’09. Originally known as the Harvard Dramatic Club, HRDC was founded in 1908 with a mission to create a permanent standing theater community at Harvard. It distinguished itself from other universities?? dramatic clubs through its commitment to both student actors and student playwrights. Its first production, entitled “The Promised Land,” was written by A. Davis, class of 1907, and encouraged the vision of “an all Harvard production...