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Bacow Shows Harvard Has a Soul

Does Harvard have no soul? In his book Excellence Without a Soul, Harvard College’s former dean, Harry Lewis, is convinced that “Harvard today tiptoes away from moral education” (Lewis, page 96). Like anything else, Harvard isn’t perfect. The first time Harvard let female students study in its halls wasn’t because it believed in gender equality […]

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Everyone in a community should feel a sense of belonging. Yet, there are pervasive biases that can make others feel unwelcome. The Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald offered us a glimpse of some of those biases, such as how we are never satisfied, causing crises in the process. Unfortunately, those crises have disadvantaged many […]

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