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Shera Avi-Yonah ’21 Named 2020 Rhodes Scholar

November 30, 2020

History concentrator Shera Avi-Yonah ’21 has been named a 2020 Rhodes Scholar. Asked about her time at Harvard, her senior thesis, and her plans for the future, she says “Entering one last semester at Harvard, I feel extremely lucky to have learned from many wonderful professors and graduate students in the History department. I’m currently working on a senior thesis examining conflicts between the Richmond, Va. press and the Confederate...

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Carissa Chen ’21 Named 2020 Rhodes Scholar

November 30, 2020

History concentrator Carissa Chen ’21 has been named a 2020 Rhodes Scholar. Asked about her time at Harvard, her senior thesis, and her plans for the future, she says “For my senior thesis, I am finding the lives of the descendants of Harvard enslaved people in the archives and weaving the generational tale into a longer narrative of the development of Roxbury and Cambridge. I'm so grateful to my thesis advisors, Professor Beckert and Professor Rothschild, for...

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Spring 2021 East Asian Languages Placement Exams

November 30, 2020

Chinese Exam Instructions

Test Date:

Wednesday, January 13

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm ET Written Test (composition; grammar & reading)

3:30 pm - 5:30 pm ET Oral Test (you will be assigned a 5-minute test slot between 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm. A Zoom link with your assigned slot will be sent to you through email)
 

Makeup Exam:

Tuesday, January 19

8:30 am - 10:30 am ET Written Test (composition; grammar & reading)

10:30 am - 12:30 pm ET Oral Test (you will be assigned a 5-minute test...

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WA Governor’s Office

November 30, 2020

Inslee announces statewide COVID-19 exposure notification tool

WA Notify uses privacy-preserving technology and works without collecting or revealing any location or personal data

"The Fragility of Flourishing: Augustine’s Critique of the Stoics" by Brendan W. Case [medium.com]

November 27, 2020

The Fragility of Flourishing: Augustine’s Critique of the Stoics is the newest contribution by Brendan W. Case. The aricles is published at https://hfharvard.medium.com/, which is a new platform for commentaries offered by Program's staff and fellows. 

From the article:

Augustine and the Stoics agreed that human flourishing is fragile if it depends on any external goods, but the Stoics took this to show that virtue alone suffices for our happiness, whereas, for Augustine, it proved that true flourishing is impossible except...

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