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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon
Undergraduate summers are the time for serious reading. I would urge students to read as much as they can of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, still the greatest work of historical writing in English. The combination of erudition and irony is exquisite. It...
Eiseley wrote wonderful dreamy essays about science and nature which always start my mind wandering freely. He somehow combines the best of travel writing with the best of science writing. Any of his collections of essays are great, in case you can't find this one. I suggest this book...
Howard E. Gardner '65 - The John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
I consider Mahatma Gandhi to be the most remarkable and most important human being of the last millennium, and so I think students should know about him—and not just from the movie about him starring Ben Kingsley. Erik Erikson was my undergraduate tutor at Harvard in the...