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...Way.Your Hist and Lit journey begins when you select your field of study. You may study one country, two countries, or a region or group of countries within a specific time period (the Post-Colonial field is the most recent addition; post-1750 is the most popular). Your coursework must sample the history and literature of your country, as well as fulfill a foreign language requirement (mais oui, oh America-only concentrators). Limited enrollment History and Literature are offered each semester—topics have included “History and Literature of the Modern American South?...
Intramural crew: 1. Harvard’s answer to House quidditch. 2. Participants wake up when everyone else is going to sleep. 3. Legitimate excuse for making a general mockery of your senior spring coursework (see Extension...
...meantime, candidates are grabbing for any online youth credibility they can. In some cases, that credibility comes from the candidates' own kids. Ned Lamont's daughter, Emily, runs his MySpace profile for her coursework as a Harvard sophomore. Twenty-year-old August Ritter also oversees the MySpace and Facebook profiles for his dad, Bill Ritter, a Democrat in Colorado's gubernatorial race...
Sixty-six candidates, who constitute 4 percent of the Class of 2006, earned summa cum laude diplomas, the highest degree bestowed by the College, in their fields of concentration. Fifty-five graduates will receive magna cum laude with highest honors, based on their entire coursework and overall grade point average, and 199 will be given magna cum laude in their fields of concentration...
...media habits, the numbers bode poorly for future engagement with current issues. But how to reverse the trend? I was amazed this spring when one of my professors mandated a daily reading of The New York Times: it was the first time in four years at Harvard my coursework required attention to current events. This is not to suggest that the University could single-handedly defeat civic indifference merely by requiring all students to read The Crimson. But if Einstein is right and education is what remains after we have forgotten everything we learned in school, perhaps we should place...