Word: almost
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...majority of us had never played soccer before," the 5-ft., 120 pounder said. "Almost no one could kick or juggle the ball. The only thing I had going for me was I could be athletic...
...problem; the steady decline of the humanities as a part of undergraduate education. Harvard's claim to provide a liberal education is very much open to question, when the picture of European culture that the average student acquires is so shallow, so edited, anthologized and interpreted as to be almost meaningless. From this comes a disorder and low morale among those committed to the humanities that is in contrast with the discipline and order of the scientific camp. The real cause of the decline no doubt lies well beyond Harvard, in the steady evolution of America away from Europe...
...with great thoroughness. As a result the interaction between a society and its culture is something that they have a basic instinct for. Americans, when they start to study European culture have no historical foundation at all on which to build. This is a fundamental problem which Harvard ignores almost completely. Again it is paradoxical that such a brilliant department--which makes Harvard one of the best places in the world to study history, at least as a graduate student--should transmit so little of its wealth to non-specialists. However, apart from the institutional problems of trying...
...advances of historical studies in the century are fascinating, but trying to understand them without the facts is absurd. Harvard graduate students trying to wring "arguments" out of undergraduates concerning subjects of which they were almost totally ignorant was something I witnessed on numerous occasions. The worst example. I came across was a Government course that proposed to teach the political economy of France. Italy, Britain and Germany over a period of several centuries in one semester. Since the majority of the students taking the course didn't have a clue about European history, let alone European polities, the result...
...subjects, and indeed do not seem very worried. To cite just one example, when a visitor lectures at the Science Center on constipation in worms or some such subject a vast lecture hall is packed, but when a visiting scholar lectures on some aspect of the humanities there are almost never any undergraduates present, the audience being limited to twenty or thirty faculty members or doctoral students and the atmosphere is often one of respectful boredom...