Word: criticall
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Critical issues included the war in Vietnam, U.S. involvement in Cambodia, apartheid in South Africa and a stronger Afro-American studies department.
In the current issue of Harvard Magazine, Professor of English and Comparative Literature James T. Engell '73 criticizes the death of the humanities at Harvard, and in conversation he is also often critical of the "scary" pressure Harvard students feel.
My class, the class of 1973, saw some of the most turbulent and troublesome times in the long history of Harvard University. We arrived in Cambridge in 1969, in the wake of the assassinations of my father, Robert F. Kennedy '48, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Riots tore apart...
Nevertheless, Harvard offered us a tremendous vantage point on the world that was changing around us. History, literature, philosophy, economics, sociology--everything seemed so relevant, so critical. The courses enriched our perspectives on the country's struggle and perhaps even gave us clues as to how we could achieve justice...
In his 1986 book Higher Learning, former Harvard President Derek C. Bok made a detailed assessment of the worth of a Harvard undergraduate education. According to a study conducted by Harold Bowen in 1977, Harvard teaches students a great deal of "substantive knowledge," and those students make "moderate gains" in...