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...University’s. In this selection of articles, The Crimson delves into the ways in which Summers has attempted to mold Harvardt, successfully and not. Today, it remains unclear whether the University in a few years will resemble the draft Summers has sketched. Instead, Summers’ audacious approach, far more than the specifics of his views, may be his greatest legacy to Harvard. His approach has already laid the groundwork for a science-oriented, interdisciplinary campus in Allston and encouraged members of the Harvard College Curricular Review to adopt the same interdisciplinary approach to introductory undergraduate courses...
...report on “Curricular Renewal in Harvard College,” I was reassured that we were also getting it right. After all, the report called for the creation of new courses in general education that would be “expansive in scope and integrative in approach.” The portal experience, it was emphasized, should be designed to “situate important texts, concepts, and discoveries in the context of larger problems and themes in ways that provide students with an intellectual introduction to broad areas of knowledge and inquiry...
...principles mapped out by the General Education Committee, they inflected their concrete course proposals with many of the productive tensions that inevitably arise between theory and practice, but with remarkably little resistance to the mandate for courses that are “expansive in scope and integrative in approach...
...good enough,” Kauble said. “We decided that we wanted to try and go out there and win the championship, and we decided that we were going to try and be aggressive from the outset.”The Crimson’s approach paid off. Though Harvard was in fifth place after the first 300 meters, its attack allowed it to chase down its competitors and to come within inches of upsetting Cornell.And though the Crimson had its sights set on taking home the national title, for once silver seemed to be enough...
...from Israel at the age of 13, Brand continued fencing in his adopted country, competing internationally throughout the 1970s and ’80s. The Crimson, an energetic outfit that Brand tailored together from the nation’s best recruits, has taken to his unorthodox approach to coaching. Brand is a man who frowns on formality.He grew up on a kibbutz, where neighbors casually address each other by their given names. His fencers call him “Peter.”“That’s the way I insist that they call...