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...should be simply abolished. One year ago to this day, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven E. Ozment, then course head for History 10a, lamented that, even at Harvard, few undergraduates study anything prior to the 19th century. Perhaps removing the rudiments of “Western Civilization??-style teaching, which makes studying the ancient past unnecessarily boring, will improve that situation. It might also halt the flow of students moving from History to other concentrations. Incidentally, a distributional requirement would automatically increase the attendance of pre-modern courses. Freshmen shopping History 10a today, ponder your...
...well on our way to doing, every part of the environment is at risk. And the disruption of climate by greenhouse gases is the most intractable of environmental issues because the fossil-fuel technologies responsible for most of the problem are currently contributing nearly 80 percent of civilization??s energy and cannot be quickly or cheaply modified to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide...
...returned to Germany, finding the country ‘flourishing’ under the blessings of the Versailles treaty,” he wrote in his reunion class book. “A year later I ran into the man who has saved Germany and civilization??Adolf Hitler...
...course, singing about things like that in the world of popular music verges on the sacrilegious. Despite being the bedrock for much of our civilization??s greatest artists, from Michelangelo to Joyce, God hasn’t fared too well on stereos in recent decades. Like protest or political anthems, “praise” songs are relegated to the farthest possible margins of coolness, not just because of their pedantic (and un-cosmopolitan) message, but because their preaching and passion doesn’t make for very good music. In the case of the ever-demonized...
What also concerns me is that not enough of you Harvard graduates will spend your twenties and thirties doing the vibrant and important work every rising generation needs to do to advance human civilization??writing books, musicals and plays, creating works of art, challenging injustice, safeguarding the planet, enhancing the child’s world, pursuing whatever intrigues...