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...connect in an explicit way what students learn at Harvard to life beyond Harvard,” focusing on buckets of subject matter rather than on disciplinary approaches to academic problems. In other words, instead of imparting knowledge to make students better educated in the broadest sense, general education will impart knowledge to make students better educated in the broadest sense. And to make them better able to apply their single dose of “Empirical Reasoning” to a diurnal close reading of “Nightline...
...like the Core’s “Quantitative Reasoning.” The category most unlike any in the current Core addresses “what it means to be a human being”—but it has yet to be defined beyond the broadest strokes. “There are only so many ways to slice the salami,” History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon ’74 said in a phone interview after yesterday’s meeting. “There’s disciplinary approaches and there?...
...DIED. Leonid Hambro, 86, brilliant concert pianist with a superhuman memory; in New York City. He dazzled with a 1952 performance at New York City's Town Hall, for which he had to learn complex works in less than a day. But the Julliard alum found broadest appeal as the straight man to funnyman-pianist Victor Borge, with whom he performed for 10 years, starting...
...with which our country is currently entangled, Saddam Hussein’s Baathism is more secular and nationalist than it is religious. Whether or not religion is a major force is a question best left to our colleagues in history, government, and area studies, in the context of the broadest possible study of world affairs. This empirical issue should not be prejudged in the categories of a general education requirement. Fourth, if the requirement is supposed to be about the clash in the history of ideas between religion and reason in Western thought, here again it seems far too arbitrary...
...requirement we envision would be fulfilled by any class that forces students to grapple with markets in their broadest sense. We are not recommending a mandate that all students take Ec 10 or even a course offered by the economics department’s faculty. While most economics classes would count, so would courses in many other departments that focus on the influence of the market. For instance, a course that takes a critical perspective on economic orthodoxy, a course that focuses on the political economy of Africa, and a course that studies the history of capitalism would all count...