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...while Summers culled input from a broad range of sources, he kept details of the search close to the vest...
...reputation -- her accolades, her past accomplishments, and her present heroic-scale fame -- you find that there are no firm intellectual roots to her analysis, and no rational bounds to her emotionalism. Pauline Kael has become just another opinionator, more fiery and more skillful than most, but without any broad vision to separate her from the herd...
...will be standing on the extraordinarily broad shoulders of Joe [Nye] as we look into the future,” Ellwood said yesterday...
...things stand, Harvard is the only Ivy League college that requires students to choose a concentration during their first year. And while it is not always advisable to follow the herd, allowing students to delay announcing their concentrations would give first years the chance to explore a broad range of subjects without being shoe-horned immediately into a particular discipline. As Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby told The Crimson last week, “If you have to declare your concentration in the spring of your freshman year, you basically have one semester of unfettered choice and even...
...extended declaration deadline. And, of course, that reduction would mean that students would graduate with a little less knowledge of their chosen fields. Nevertheless, one of the strengths of a liberal arts education, which Harvard purports to offer, is that graduates are supposed to be informed on a broad range of subjects. Right now, it seems that Harvard is too concerned with churning out, say, budding economists, rather than producing thoughtful, well-rounded young men and women. The vast majority of Harvard students who choose to leave academics after their four years in college will be infinitely better served...