Pointing our thoughts : reflections on Harvard and higher education, 1991-2001 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rudenstine, Neil L.
Other Authors: Gray, Hanna Holborn
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University, [2001]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The enduring university: The values of education.
  • The university and diversity: Diversity and learning at Harvard
  • Free expression in a diverse society
  • Sustaining an inclusive vision
  • Persevering
  • University debate and freedom of speech
  • Access and affordability
  • Some essential institutional values.
  • The arts and humanities: The challenging nature of the humanities
  • A perpetual visual motion machine
  • Melodic transgressions (John Harbison)
  • Testing the limits (Ellsworth Kelly)
  • Firmly grounded ideas
  • A continuing conversation.
  • Science and technology: New technologies and their promise for higher education
  • The fruits of science and serendipity
  • Our pursuit of science and health
  • This astonishing technological phenomenon.
  • The professions, community, and public service: The changing professions
  • A mind as it reasons (Kathleen Sullivan)
  • Leading medical education
  • Landscape architecture at Harvard
  • Servant of the public good (Alan Greenspan)
  • Celebrating courage and commitment
  • A sympathetic imagination (Justice Margaret Marshall)
  • Casting and recasting
  • Contributing to the life of our community.
  • Thinking internationally: Engaging global realities
  • Indigenously American but simultaneously global
  • Exchanging differences
  • A democrat who has learned from a king (Nelson Mandela)
  • Pitching into commitments (David Rockefeller)
  • Transforming situations (Yitzhak Rabin)
  • A major turning point in international studies.
  • The worlds of Harvard: Pointing our thoughts
  • Integrating knowledge
  • A spirit not to be quenched (Thomas Dudley Cabot)
  • Deeds, not creeds (John Loeb)
  • A lifetime of service and care (Joseph Pulitzer, Jr.)
  • Her own poetics (Judith Nisse Shklar)
  • Our lean Galbraithian hero (John Kenneth Galbraith)
  • Thou art a wonder gome (Reverend Peter Gomes)
  • This singular place
  • A class by itself.
  • An education: Reaching out
  • The act of reading
  • Designed to be a genuine community
  • A labyrinthine collegiate climb
  • Keeping our memory accurate
  • Intensity and form (Sydney Freedberg)
  • Something luminous (Harry Levin)
  • Consequential minds and presences
  • Passion as task
  • Self-education.