Excellence Without a Soul

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1. cafardNov 2018
   I would suggest a look at Excellence Without a Soul by Harry Lewis (sometime dean of Harvard College) before you conclude that it was only those comments that lost Summers his job.
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2. balding_n_tiredOct 2010
   There is an interesting chapter in _Excellence Without a Soul_ by Harry Lewis, suggesting that garde inflation is less a problem that widely believed. You could look it up.
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3. cafardNov 2020
   In Excellence Without a Soul, Harry Lewis, sometime dean of Harvard College, quotes a head of house, scholarly and not at all athletic as saying that athletes add a great deal to the school: They are the only people who know how to lose.
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4. balding_n_tiredApr 2010
   In _Excellence Without a Soul_, Harry Lewis, a former dean of Harvard College (and comp sci prof) gives the grade inflation theories a drubbing.
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