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...undergraduate population in a way that would run contrary to the colorful character of a liberal arts institution. Engineering could become a five-year program, with more time for exploration to complement the field’s hefty requirements. But Harvard would then lose the collegiality that America??s four-year college tradition exists to ensure.Unsatisfying a compromise it may be, the solution seems to be preserving the undergraduate engineering program as distinct from the new school, injecting a paltry dose of the liberal arts through the Core (or whatever new system of distribution requirements replaces...
...truly serious about shifting Harvard’s center toward Allston and making it the flagship campus of the institution—and perhaps, of the nation—it cannot afford to make it anonymously contemporary. Allston must be imaginative and dramatic, iconic of a new era for America??s oldest university. It needs landmarks, an instantly recognizable style: a Memorial Hall or a Widener Library for a new age. In searching for this new signature, the University ought not look at MIT or Stanford or at the latest design that—like the Science Center...
...several Chaplin-esque pratfalls, but these “mistakes” only added to the musical’s antic energy. Of the evening’s innumerable gags and spoofs the only joke to fall flat was the ironic moment of silence the cast held for America??s soldiers in Iraq. The joke’s blatant offensiveness inspired uncomfortable laughter initially, but as the moment of silence dragged on past the two minute mark the crowd settled into an unpleasant funk. Luckily, the musical recovered from that blunder and finished with the same manic energy...
...lacks a cohesive code of honor, which would set a universal precedent of integrity both inside and outside of the classroom.Dating from the institution of the first collegiate honor code at the College of William and Mary in 1779, honor codes have been a defining attribute of many of America??s most reputable institutions. Caltech, Stanford, Princeton, Williams College, and the University of Virginia all have explicitly defined honor codes in either an academic or general setting. Stanford, for instance, has an Honor Code for academic integrity, written by students in 1921, as well as a Fundamental Standard...
...story, “The Red Bow,” Saunders gives us perhaps the most explicit allegory of his vision of America??s slip down the slope toward war, following its misdirected push after 9/11—which he has discussed elsewhere in political essays. The protagonist, a nonspecifically small-town American father whose young daughter has been attacked and killed by a stray dog, moves from decking his town with FIGHT THE OUTRAGE posters to developing a “Three Point Emergency Plan” to sympathizing with his grieving wife?...