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Showing posts with label Harvard University. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harvard University. Show all posts
Saturday, February 3, 2024

More Plagiarism at Harvard: Another Stain on the DEI Industry

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Plagiarism, Schlagerism. What does it matter so long as you stand by the integrity of your scholarship? That’s Claudine Gay’s position, and...
Saturday, January 6, 2024

Harvard is never having to say you're sorry

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If you’ve seen the movie Love Story (and I don’t recommend it ), you’ve heard Ali Macgraw deliver her famous line: “Love is never having to...
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Antisemitism at Harvard. Should I Burn hy Harvard Diploma?

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  I wish I were a billionaire who had given a pot of money to Harvard University. I would write Harvard a stern public letter rebuking its a...
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Friday, June 30, 2023

The Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action in college admissions: Ain’t nothing gonna change at the universities

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Yesterday, in an opinion authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, the US Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions....
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Saturday, March 19, 2022

Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt: The Student-Loan Crisis is Getting Worser and Worser

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"It's a thankless job," Kurt Vonnegut observed in Titans of Siren , "telling people it's a hard, hard Universe they...
Wednesday, July 7, 2021

Want to be a College Professor? Some Things to Consider

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So you want to be a college professor.  You enjoy writing, research, and teaching. You want to live in a world of ideas.  Why not academia? ...
Wednesday, June 16, 2021

Will an Ivy League degree make you LESS employable?

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 In a recent Wall Street Journal essay , R. R. Reno, Editor of First Things , wrote that he had stopped hiring graduates from elite college...
Tuesday, July 7, 2020

Harvard University will go online this fall but will charge full tuition: $49,000 a year to take courses on your home computer

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In response to the coronavirus pandemic, Harvard University announced that all undergraduate classes will be taught online this fall. Harv...
Monday, June 16, 2014

Why Humiliate Yourself To Get into an Ivy League College? The Search for a Richer Life

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Years ago I had a professor at the University of Texas who hung his college diploma in the guest bathroom of his home--right above the toile...
Monday, April 28, 2014

David Leonhardt says it's harder and harder to get into Harvard University: "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn!"

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David Leonhardt wrote an essay in the Sunday issue of the New York Times about how hard it is these days for someone get admitted to an Ivy...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Blah, blah, blah: Drew Faust, president of Harvard, lectures America on the value of arts education

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Drew Faust, president of Harvard University, took time out from her busy schedule to co-author an op ed essay for USA Today on the value o...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

President Obama Did Not Tell the Truth About the Affordable Care Act: Where Was the President Educated?

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Justice Ruth Ginsburg It's OK to scam the rubes (wink!) In Gratz v. Bollinger , the Supreme Court overturned an affirmative action ...
Monday, November 11, 2013

Gore Vidal bequeathed his entire estate to Harvard University, but he died anyway.

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Gore Vidal died in 2012, leaving his entire estate to Harvard University. I'm sure he received a nice thank-you note. Harvard knows how ...
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Monday, July 22, 2013

This explains so much! Lots of Obama's People Graduated From Elite Colleges

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This explains so much! I recall seeing a cartoon awhile back showing the puppet Ernie from Sesame Street at the doctor's office. Ern...