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Hosting Harvard-Yale at Fenway Is the Right Move

This change isn’t the death of tradition — it’s tradition evolved. So, next fall, enter The Game at Fenway with an open mind and a lot of school spirit, and we might just make Harvard-Yale better than ever.

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Our Professors Say We Don’t Care Enough about Our Classes. What Did You Expect?

These activities give us purpose and prepare us for life beyond academia. Harvard’s mission to develop “citizen-leaders” can’t succeed if leadership and learning are treated as separate goals.

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The Real Reason Trump Is Attacking Harvard

Harvard’s top priority should be to rehabilitate its public image by advertising its positive effects — from scientific breakthroughs made here to the University’s broader economic impact —  which would help insulate itself from its current political woes.

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Harvard’s Research Saves Lives. Let’s Train Students To Do the Same.

Harvard generates extraordinary science. Students deserve courses that show them how to use science to help people live extraordinary lives.

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This Semester, Join a Club Just for Fun

For the most part, Harvard students don’t have to worry about finding professional success — so let’s make more of an effort to enjoy ourselves while we do.

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Harvard Professors Are Adapting To AI. It’s Time Students Do the Same.

Harvard, like every other institution, is figuring out what learning looks like in the AI age. It’s messy, imperfect, and evolving quickly. But if this semester is any indication, faculty are meeting us halfway.

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Stop Complaining About the Laundry Prices, You Unpatriotic Cheapskate

And I’m proud to be a Harvardian, at least I know I’m free. And I won’t forget the liberal judges of the First Massachusetts District Court who temporarily gave that right to me. And I’ll gladly stand up next to you, and contribute every extra quarter I’ve got to stanch the bleeding.

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Harvard Should Invest in Vocational Education

Now more than ever, Harvard is struggling to recast itself as serving the needs of the broader American population. While funding new programs may not be feasible under Harvard’s current constraints, in the long-term, it should consider how it can support a more diverse range of forms of education.

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Harvard Must Confront Trump’s Demands for What They Are, Not How They’re Made

The real danger for Harvard is not reforming under pressure, but defending itself only on the grounds of pressure. If we let “who gets to tell Harvard what to do” replace “what should Harvard actually do,” we cede the substance of the debate.

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Harvard Will Have to Sacrifice Something. It Should Be Our Funding.

In these trying times, it is the responsibility of students and affiliates to resist federal concessions in any way possible. Relinquishing our responsibility to defend higher education will come at great cost to the next generation of leaders.

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AI Defeats the Purpose of a Humanities Education

While Harvard apparently worries that its educational programming is losing rigor to grade inflation and lax attendance norms, it can start making a difference by curtailing a problem in part of its own making: ban AI use, and the quality of humanities education at Harvard will improve.

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The Women’s Center Is Gone — But Its Work Isn’t Finished

When I came to Harvard, I was fortunate that the University offered crucial support through the Women’s Center. I hope the same kind of resources are still available when I leave.

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Harvard Needs the Kind of Exams AI Can’t Take

It’s time to do our work ourselves instead of delegating it to AI. It’s time to hold ourselves to the standards that the Harvard name implies.

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Harvard Needs to Look into Industry for Scientific Funding

We are in dire times, which call for dire measures. Should disaster strike us again, it seems as if the best way for scientists at Harvard to keep the lights on is to collaborate with private companies — or else risk losing it all.

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The Life and Times of The Canadian Harvard Jew

After considerable thought, I’ve determined the ideal American reaction to my patrial predicament would be: “Wow, what an enviable country you have, but we have no intention of applying sovereignty to it at this time.” I’m still waiting.

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