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...Harvard. Brown allows students to have courses letter-graded or non-letter graded, with a Satisfactory/No Credit option. Through this open curriculum, Brown aims to prioritize “intellectual growth rather than the static transmission of knowledge”—essentially, a broad and curious academic perspective. Admittedly, Brown’s intellectual ethos is historically very different from Harvard’s, but we could nonetheless learn from its exploration-focused, open curriculum...
...published her findings in a 192-page book called “The Parents’ Guide to Cambridge Schools.” She also pushed the schools committee to hire a public information officer to develop a comprehensive collection of school Web sites, just a click away from curious parents’ computers...
...flew. On the ground, the environment was strikingly permissive, considering that a foreign army had just invaded the capital and deposed the country's long-term dictator. People were going out, eating in restaurants. You half expected to see double-decker buses rolling down the main streets, with curious tourists gaping out the windows...
...Anita Shreve This item not only has the word “body” in the title but also has a girl standing thigh-high in water, while wearing a skin-color bikini that makes her appear naked. This is obviously intended to remind you and all curious beachgoers sneaking a peak at your reading material that “sex on the beach” can be more than just a drink. And even if that isn’t the intention of the author, at least the sunshine glinting on the ocean and the girl?...
...curios in just the right proportion of nerdiness and pretension. So if you were wondering over buffalo wings when Harvard last won first place in the William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition, the pub can tell you—in plaque form (it was in 2005). And if you are curious about at what hours women could visit the River Houses seven decades ago, parietal rules are on the wall—but thankfully not in force. Also hanging is a giant register of every Game and its score, revealing that Harvard holds sway o’er old Eli with...