1911
The Corporation proposes that needy boys entering the College from Cambridge high schools be exempted from paying tuition during their first year, and that summer-school fees be substantially reduced for Cambridge public-school teachers.
1926
In response to grumbles from alumni that the modern Harvard student is “too self-conscious to enjoy tomfoolery, too sophisticated to do anything that isn’t done,” the
Bulletin shares a string of recent undergraduate antics, including a student who ate 45 eggs in 43 minutes.
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1936
Musing that much Harvard news turns up in daily newspapers, a
Bulletin editorialist examines a Boston paper on an average winter day and finds “the ‘Harvard angle’ ” covered 13 times. Items include a Cambridge city councilor’s suggestion that the University make the city a tercentenary gift of $300,000 “on the grounds that ‘Harvard receives many benefits from the city and gives little in return’ ” and the alleged infestatio
President Eisgruber’s annual State of the University letter, 2021
by the Office of Communications
Feb. 4, 2021 2 p.m.
Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber speaks with Irina Aranovich, general supervisor of Princeton s Diagnostic Laboratory, on a tour of the campus’ new COVID-19 testing facility in October 2020. The testing lab is an integral part of the University’s overall health and safety measures during the coronavirus pandemic.
Photo by
Ben Chang, Office of Communications
Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber sent his annual State of the University letter to faculty, students and staff on Thursday, Feb. 4, reflecting on the role of the University in a time of crisis.
On Wednesday, Jan. 27, the Senate General Laws and Technology committee will meet to discuss (among other matters), a bill that would prevent non-embalmer funeral directors from managing funeral service
The nightmare born when technology took the place of science
Posted : 2021-01-13 10:30
By Emanuel Pastreich
Even small children are starting to sense that we live in an age when literally none of the information provided is reliable or believable. Information on a global scale is subject increasingly to Gresham s Law: low-quality information spreads everywhere and the truth is hoarded.
What went wrong, and how?
Perhaps the original sin was the confusion of science, the philosophical pursuit of the truth through the most accurate processes that man can produce, with technology, the tools, and the systems based on tools, that serve to create an effect or complete a task.
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BYU President Kevin J Worthen
January 12, 2021, Devotional
Kevin J Worthen began serving as the 13th president of Brigham Young University on May 1, 2014. He previously served as BYU s advancement vice president and as the dean of its J. Reuben Clark Law School, where he was the Hugh W. Colton Professor of Law. President Worthen currently serves as an area seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. President and Sister Worthen have three children and six grandchildren.
President Worthen was born in Dragerton (now East Carbon-Sunnyside), Utah, and grew up in nearby Price. After serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Monterrey, Mexico, he earned an associate degree from the College of Eastern Utah (now USU Eastern). He then received his Bachelor of Arts in political science and his Juris Doctor from BYU. Following his graduation from the J. Reuben Clark Law School, President Worthen served as a law clerk to Judge Ma