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Taking these experiences into account, celebrating Valentine’s Day in an environment essentially free of sexual expectations was liberating. Going to a Catholic school with a class of 48 girls was a culture shock after graduating one of 460 from a co-ed public middle school, and the creeping approach of Valentine’s Day threw the absence of boys into high relief—not to say that I had a lot of game in middle school, or even that my “romantic” encounters went at all beyond shy flirtation with...
...totally founded perception. Some might point to our picturesque courtyards, our classic architecture, or our privileged student body as evidence of this, but I think the term bill would have to be the ultimate indicator of our posh surroundings. Think about it. The term bill is that expense account that we have always wanted, whether we knew it or not. It buys us unlimited meals, gives us sick housing, and even allows us to go to lectures by leading scholars of their fields, if we are so inclined. But there is so much more that a Harvard student...
...master” was sent to court for assault. The namesake of Lowell House attempted to place quotas on student admissions in an effort to solve “the Jewish question.” A more recent offering suggested that intrinsic differences in intelligence may account for the lack of women in science...
...understand how everything that we teach in the arts and sciences relates to their lives and to the world they will confront.” There are various interpretations of this and related sentences in the report, some of which have been used to criticize it as an instrumentalist account of general education. But it seems to me better interpreted as the proposal that general education take place in the context of a broad inquiry about how we ought to live. This idea, I believe, is entirely laudable as a premise for reform...
...added that the group’s report—submitted to the search committee in December—will give Faust “a really fresh, up-to-date account what the students at each school really think...