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...champion of the study of Western Civilization, helped inspire the $20 million donation from Bass, a 1979 graduate of Yale. Bass, whose family had given a total of $85 million to Yale by the early '90s, agreed to fund seven new full professorships and four associate positions in Western Civ...
...irony is that many of Kagan's detractors on campus are also great advocates of Western Civ. Another is that by implying that multiculturalism, rather than clashing egos and tightfisted administrators, was interfering with Bass's gift, the Wall Street Journal editorial writers helped ensure the demise of a program that would have strengthened Yale's classical curriculum...
...haven't seen a proposal that addressed all our concerns," says Professor of History William E. Gienapp, who is a member of the Historical Studies B subcommittee of the core committee. "Regular Western Civ would not meet [the core guidelines...
Fine and N. Van Taylor '96, who co-sponsored the resolution, said the core curriculum offers few courses broad enough to be valuable to most students. The proposed Historical Studies A-10 and B-10, they said, would offer students the option of taking "Western civ. with a world perspective...
...face it, most students come to Harvard without a clear idea of what constitutes a liberal education. A little guidance couldn't hurt. What we want--and there's no reason to be ashamed--is the option to buy a six-track greatest hits collection of Western Civ...