Harvard University

Harvard has ruined more niggers than bad liquor.

— Harvard University

I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University.

— Harvard University

The facilities for student dining, athletic activity, and classroom learning that existed 30 years ago at Harvard University were Spartan compared to the opulent facilities that today’s students enjoy. Harvard has no option but to keep ratcheting up its attractiveness and, therefore, its cost structure in order to compete successfully against the likes of Stanford and Yale.

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Harvard's Department of Mathematics was housed in the Science Center, a modern-looking building just outside of Harvard Yard. It had the look of a giant alien space ship that just happened to land in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and decided to stay there.

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William F. Buckley, Jr. once made the famous pronouncement that he would rather be ruled by the first 2,000 names in the Boston phonebook than by the combined faculties of Harvard and MIT. Now that we ruled by the combined faculties of Harvard and MIT, you can see what he meant.

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Fair Harvard! we join in thy Jubilee throng, Calm rising thro’ change and thro’ storm.

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Farewell! be thy destinies onward and bright! Till the stars in the firmament die.

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It takes quite a bit of work (and a lot of luck) to acquire a level of fame. The question that might be worth asking is whether or not that effort is related to the quality of ideas underneath. Harvard has been around for nearly 400 years. That doesn't mean the brand name is worth as much as we might be inclined to believe.

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If Chicago opened the century as America's foremost centre of mathematics training and research, Harvard followed a somewhat distant second. Under the direction of Osgood and Bôcher, its mathematics department excelled in analysis but fell short in most other areas. Perfectly complementing one another, Osgood pursued the function-theoretic side of Klein's teaching legacy, while Bôcher concentrated on generalized series expansions in potential theory.

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Together, Tate and Mazur formed the nucleus of a robust number theory group at Harvard, which was enlivened by periodic visits from Jean-Pierre Serre, Alexander Grothendieck, Serge Lang, and many others. While there had been little research along these lines at Harvard prior to Tate's arrival, things started reaching a critical mass with both him and Mazur on the scene.

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The difference between individual intelligence and group intelligence is the difference between Harvard University and the Harvard University football team.

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Ivy League universities are becoming in the eyes of the new Asian upper class the ultimate status luxury good. Harvard is like a Vuitton bag and a Cartier watch.

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The heuristic here would be to use education in reverse: hire, conditional on an equal set of skills, the person with the least label-oriented education. It means that the person had to succeed in spite of the credentialization of his competitors and overcome more serious hurdles. In addition, people who didn’t go to Harvard are easier to deal with in real life.

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Have you heard the latest wisecrack about Harvard? People are calling it a hedge fund with a university attached. They have a point—Harvard stands at the troubling intersection between higher education and high finance, with over 15 percent of its massive $38 billion endowment invested in hedge funds.

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Harvard University students can take “Marxist Concepts of Racism,” which examines “the role of capitalist development and expansion in creating racial inequality.” You can bet there’s no mention of the genocide in Africa and former communist regimes like Yugoslavia.

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The ambience of Harvard University comes not so much from its profusion of museums and libraries, or the rat's maze of its narrow streets, but from its compression of time and space that speak centuries of history.

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