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The period, dubbed the “January Experience” to distinguish it from an academic term, will last from Jan. 3 to Jan. 23 of next year.
At the end of that academic year, interim President Derek C. Bok announced that the Harvard Corporation had approved a plan modeled on the Verba committee’s initial outline.
I point to the books. When I mention the Harvard Classics to Harris, he emphasizes that the names of many of these authors no longer ring a bell. Tastes change. So do curricula. And so do the people in charge of implementing academic programs.
But occasionally, there are those titans who do away with tradition and help shape history. One of Harvard’s greatest figures was President Eliot, who governed the University from 1869 to 1909. He expanded the student body and eliminated the College’s fixed curriculum of Latin...
The only reference to Gen Ed Elizabeth R. Holly ’12 could remember happened during freshman week. Her academic adviser did not know much about the new program either, though she assured Holly that more information would come. Six months later, according to Holly, that information has yet...