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BETHLEHEM, Pa.—Maybe someone has finally figured out a way to stop Clifton Dawson: cue the Lehigh defense.But the way to slow down the rest of the No. 21 Harvard football team? That still went unanswered on Saturday, as the Crimson (3-0, 1-0 Ivy) squeaked by the Mountain Hawks (1-3, 0-0 Patriot) by a 35-33 score in front of 10,680 fans at Goodman Stadium in Bethlehem, Pa.Although Dawson was held relatively in check—he gained just 94 yards on 31 carries—he did move into...
...Shopping period is like academic speed-dating: all of the perks without any of the commitment. The opportunity to shop, instead of pre-registering, grants students useful information about courses—the stuff that the CUE Guide cannot provide. Shopping “Introduction to Linguistics,” for example, provided me with all sorts of firsthand knowledge about how hot the professor is (good morning, Professor Nevins...
Classes which overflow during shopping week, the ones where 300 students show up to the first lecture, are generally the ones for which the professors received the highest CUE ratings the previous year. Literature and Arts A-53, “Athens to Jerusalem,” is a prime example. The course in its previous offering was attended by only 10 students, but very high ratings for Professors Simon and Machinist caused this number to explode with hundreds attending the first lecture...
...sure, is not alone in its plodding ways. The Core Standing Committee evidently missed their cue to act on last spring’s announcement of new Humanities divisional courses. As students thumbed through the nearly thousand-page Courses of Instruction, many were delighted to find classes such as Humanities 10, “An Introductory Humanities Colloquium,” and Humanities 14, “Existentialism in Literature and Film,” but they were left without guidance as to what general education requirement these general education courses would fulfill. The Core Committee’s failure...
...took just a week for Princeton to take Harvard’s cue in abolishing early admissions—but 37 years after Harvard established a black studies concentration, Princeton is only now following in its Cambridge rival’s footsteps.The New Jersey school is establishing a new Center for African American Studies and expanding its faculty in the field from 5 to 11—challenging Harvard’s position as the premier hub of black studies. On Monday, Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman announced plans for the university to expand its African American studies program...