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...Harvard would then lose the collegiality that America’s four-year college tradition exists to ensure.Unsatisfying a compromise it may be, the solution seems to be preserving the undergraduate engineering program as distinct from the new school, injecting a paltry dose of the liberal arts through the Core (or whatever new system of distribution requirements replaces it), and developing the new school as a focus for graduate, post-graduate, and faculty research and collaboration. Through the liberal use of joint-appointments between the new school and FAS, undergraduate engineers could take advantage of the new school?...
...suitably adept at drinking wine and eating cheese. There is a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine for the few who can fit in the cookie-cutter shape of the publication’s officer core. But for the majority of Harvardians without access to these institutions, a new forum has provided an unexpected space to unleash their suppressed desires: Lamont Library. With the advent of the library’s 24-hour schedule, Lamont has become—especially during the doldrums of reading and exam periods?...
...that he’s laid,” Knowles said.At his final Faculty meeting as dean last week, Kirby said that a group of professors would draft legislation on general education over the summer—meaning that the Faculty may vote on a possible successor to the Core Curriculum as early as the fall.Knowles, who did a two-year stint in the British Royal Air Force before graduating first-class from Oxford University, earned renown as a chemist before becoming an administrator. A scholar of enzymes, Knowles was the first to develop a full kinetic description...
...subject of general education reform, the last major piece of the College’s curricular review, Schmid said that his “opinion was formed relatively early.” “I arrived at Harvard around the same time as the Core in ’78,” Schmid observed, “I always felt that the Core curriculum was too rigid.”Historian Caroline Elkins, another new addition to the council, won a Pulitzer Prize this year for her book on British colonial rule in 1950s Kenya?...
...final Faculty meeting as dean last week, Kirby said that a group of professors would draft legislation on general education over the summer—meaning that the Faculty may vote on a possible successor to the Core Curriculum as early as the fall...