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...effort to move curricular review forward, Cabot House Master and Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris spoke in favor of allowing more departmental courses to count for Core credit at Tuesday’s full faculty meeting. The meeting revealed that “there seemed to be two different ways of approaching” general education reform, with one group calling for further discussion and another calling for progress this year, Ryan said...
...crutch of a band’s equipment,” she says, “it’s really difficult to get up on stage and perform and that’s the first time you’ve ever heard your vocals.”The core of HCARAR’s mission is to bolster Harvard’s alternative music scene so that it doesn’t allow for what Hufstedler now sees as a “self-perpetuating” vicious cycle.“You arrive here, you realize there isn?...
...prefects are expected to be formal academic advisors. Instead, the College should establish a new peer advising program alongside a better funded and better managed Prefect Program. Freshmen would benefit invaluably from the kind of honest and practical advice upperclassmen can provide. Peer advisors could tell freshmen which Core has a lighter workload and which professor just reads from a script in lecture. Moreover, first-year students should be assigned an advisor in a broad field like social sciences, sciences, or humanities. When they enter the College, freshmen would indicate which general area they are interested in so that they...
...biggest night of the week comes on Sunday, when hundreds of students attend mass in the basement of St. Paul’s Church on Bow Street. Aside from this weekly gathering, the CSA also offers lectures, social events, and service opportunities, with “a very active core group of about 200 people.” But the CSA places great importance on the student mass and its role in building community through communal worship. “The lifeblood of our organization,” Brewer says, “is our fellowship in Christ and through...
...always, the essays are based upon detailed and sustained close readings of individual poems—the kind of readings for which students who have taken Professor Vendler’s Literature and Arts A-22, “Poems, Poets, Poetry,” core class, or one of her courses in the English department, will remember...