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...should keep at the front of their minds. The committee may think—in the words of committee member and Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature Judith L. Ryan—that it is engaging only in “translation.” It nevertheless holds broad power to affect the educations of a generation of Harvard students by determining the minutiae of implementation that students will have to deal with constantly. We hope the committee uses its power wisely to ensure that both current and future students have a wide range of choice in the classes...
...praises. Earlier this month, Middlebury College’s history department banned the use of Wikipedia as a source for papers and exams after a number of students referenced the same inaccurate Wikipedia article in an exam. “Wikipedia is good for providing overviews of noncontroversial and broad topics, but not good for news, commentary, or anything with polarized opinions,” wrote Harvard teaching fellow Abdur-Rahim Syed in an e-mail. Syed, who teaches the sophomore tutorial, “Economics of Hegemony: Rome, Britain, and America,” also includes Wikipedia articles...
...last time Harvard University tackled that question was in 1978, when it established its Core Curriculum, which focused less on content than on mastering ways of thinking. Like Harvard's so-called Red Book standards of 1945, which helped inspire a generation of distribution requirements, the core had broad resonance at other major universities. Now, after a four-year process initiated under controversial former president Lawrence Summers, the nation's most famous university has come up with a whole new set of guidelines that proponents say will help clarify how liberal-arts subjects like philosophy and art history shed light...
...Faust wrote that she was “very pleased” that Hyman agreed to serve as her deputy, praising his “extraordinary dedication and effectiveness on a broad range of university matters...
...asserted that a club venue hosting concerts can contact her office for an exemption from the 11 p.m. deadline, saying she has already granted “about a dozen.” While this sporadic sort of clemency is commendable, it is but a small comfort as the broad measure continues to apply to every licensed club in the city with no definitive end in sight. And the red tape involved in obtaining an exemption might prevent many clubs from seeking one. While a travesty in its own right, this directive is only the latest jarring blow in Boston?...