Word: booksã
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Mystic Mary went “straight to books?? with Antoinette, beginning the reading with a strong sense of the imperative that would drive this FM associate editor to right publishing wrongs and become the “guardian of the printed word.” Books seem to be an integral part of Antoinette’s future. She’s not the out-of-work bohemian pouring over her great novel in the corner coffe shop, but an administrator who will engineer that large-scale creation of books around the country...
Leadership, perhaps. Curricular models, not so much. While Harvard may lead the nation’s colleges in prestige, few look at its current Core program with anything resembling envy. Columbia University’s rigid “Great Books?? system and Brown University’s complete absence of Core requirements are the two curricular extremes of the Ivy clique. Harvard’s Core program stands right in the middle, with a curriculum that’s more than a distribution requirement and yet not quite the shining beacon of liberal arts education that...
...official Core website. The philosophy of the Core Curriculum, the website’s mission statement explains, is that if students are familiarized with different ways of critical thinking about cultural, social, historical, and scientific problems instead of told to master “a set of Great Books?? or digest “a specific quantum of information,” they will be equipped “to pursue additional knowledge which they may need to or wish to acquire later on in life...
...church built for students looking to worship the gods and goddesses of academia. It was wonderful and I was in love with Yale, convinced that their strong English department and this library with its gargoyles—not angry dragons but students hunched over their books??would foster the kind of college experience I was planning to have. Bygones. I chose Harvard, and as far as I’m concerned, though I may have been equally happy and well-educated at Yale, I made the right decision...
Given the range of quality information currently available and accessible, no wonder that few “instant books?? appear anywhere in the market. Such books appear to be limited to a couple of productions by online operations, such as Booksurge.com. There are also some visual books currently in the works, the most ambitious being New York September 11, a documentation of the tragedy by 11 photographers, featuring an introduction by David Halberstam. A substantial visual product, of course, can be turned out in relatively short time. Even in going about their “quick response...