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...Harvard's most radical experiments in curricular planning took place over a century ago, as we moved from a system with virtually no electives to one with virtually no requirements (1869). Since 1910 we have been fine tuning a fundamental commitment to both breadth (General Education, Later the Core) and depth (the concentrations). Harvard is larger and more complicated than it was in 1869 or 1910, and it is less a community. I find it difficult to imagine that the faculty and administration will come together to authorize sweeping changes...
...Breadth and depth of knowledge, in some form, will continue to be the hallmarks of a liberal education, as will the ability to think critically, to make informed and cogent choices, to contend with the explosion of information, and to express oneself effectively in speech and writing...
Oliver, who has just completed her second year at the law school, says she appreciates the resources HLS has to offer. For her, the school's large size requires it to provide extra facilities and faculty breadth...
...ones. Except when they are played by Alfred Brendel, an artist whose interpretive mastery of the composer continues to ripen. In his latest release, Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos (Philips Classics), Brendel teams with conductor Sir Simon Rattle and the Vienna Philharmonic in exhilarating performances that blend vitality, expressive breadth and, particularly in the five slow movements, spellbinding beauty...
...overseers have the most extraordinary breadth of professional experience of any group of people I've ever met in my life...Ultimately, we have no authority other than our own experience and persuasion," Kuehl said...