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...teacher at Columbia, the late Max Weinreich, took time off from his linguistic research during the Second World War to write “Hitler’s Professors,” documenting the participation of some of Germany’s leading academics in the Nazi movement. This book should lay to rest the notion that there is any necessary correlation between the kind of intelligence that wins Nobel Prizes and the kind of political humility that democracy requires. In fact, because they consider themselves intellectually superior to the rest of the population, academics tend to be uncommonly impatient...
...that another attendee at the meeting told others that the shift “might well happen,” Ellison offered to resign, according to his account.After Summers heard about the offer, he contacted Ellison and, in a “heated” phone conversation, agreed to write a letter stating that the proposal would not be carried out, Ellison said.“On that understanding I agreed to withdraw my resignation,” Ellison wrote in the statement. “This was on a Friday, and he said the letter would be sent...
...specific pressure to Harvard’s freshman year that is not felt by students at other programs across the country.Even as they attempt to decide on three-year programs of concentration, first year students are crowded with other requirements. First of all, there is the much-maligned Expository Writing requirement. If all goes well under the present Curricular Review, Expos will be subjected to a number of intelligent changes, making it a more integrated part of the first-year academic experience and giving more weight to the role of “preceptors,” currently among...
...Write a brief biographical sketch from the positive perspective, about how fortunate you have been to get to where you are now. Mention a few lemons that you turned into lemonade, and some wonderful things that happened to you—and are happening to you—along...
Next year, he’s taking time-off to write a book called “The Permission to Be Human” and another one, as yet untitled, about leadership...