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His writing and teaching have always ranged widely. Their base -- laid long ago at Harvard -- is the tradition of German philology, exemplified in America by the emigre scholar Erich Auerbach (1892-1957), that explores the modes and levels of representation in Western writing. "Representation" -- how we see other cultures, how...
The Foundation doles out $20,000 to minority student organizations each semester and sponsors a program of visiting scholars from "neglected cultures."
The student Coalition for Diversity introduced the suggestion of an ethnic studies core requirement, an idea which a number of prominent Harvard officials have publicly opposed. "I don't think ethnic studies ranks on the same level as foreign cultures or science. I think foreign cultures are a different, broader...
I don't think ethnic studies ranks on the same level as foreign cultures or science.
If a Japanese family is posted abroad, the parents may leave a son home with relatives so he can pursue the rigors of his education. He may be smart, but he is often so sheltered that as an adult, he can scarcely decide what to eat or which clothes to...