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Yerushalmi anticipates close cooperation between the Columbia Center and Harvard's Center (opened last October), including jointly sponsored colloquia, international conferences, and perhaps exchange programs for graduate students...
...type who learns best in small groups--if you function most easily in the give-and-take of the classroom--you're out of luck. The bulk of Harvard education is of the mass-production, assembly-line variety. Oh, there are tutorials and House seminars and colloquia and conference courses and independent studies. But by their nature--and Harvard's unwillingness to support them in large quantities--they benefit only a lucky few. The multitudes sit in large, generally uncomfortable lecture halls, stare at the professor (or out the window), mechanically take notes they will stow away until right before...
When the 107 returning members of the Radcliffe Class of 1954 arrive at Comstock Hall Wednesday afternoon to embark upon three days of receptions, luncheons, colloquia, special exhibits and performances in honor of the Radcliffe Centennial, they'll find significant changes in their alma mater. Back in the early '50s, Radcliffe was an institution seeminly independent of Harvard, sharing only course instruction, an economy measure forced by war-time pressures. Radcliffe women lived in the dormitories at the Radcliffe Quadrangle, obeyed strict 10 p.m. parietals, and used either the Radcliffe library or Widener, never Lamont. In Widener, they were warned...
...also decided to sponsor a traveling colloquia on women's studies in addition to a dinner series on "Is there life after Radcliffe?." both of which will begin in December...
...Center will also sponsor several colloquia, symposia and publications. Its purpose, Weinstock said, is to expose the contributions of the Hebrew and Jewish cultures to our civilization...