Word: curricular
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...Devil's Advocate" (FM, Oct. 7) was a "representative" account of the "power-plays" and "real-life drama" that take place on Harvard's extracurricular terrain. It is no coincidence that the manner in which FM went about writing the article was as "representative" of the extra-curricular "power plays" and "drama" which it ascribed to the Advocate. I and other members of the Advocate Executive Board declined to comment...
...Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and then-chair of the committee on ethnic studies, Jorge Dominguez, responded with a letter saying "[t]he creation of narrowly-defined administrative or curricular entities in the FAS would be misguided...
...Harvard, but not of it," Du Bois reflected in 1960. Excluded from residence, extra-curricular activities and friendships with other white students, his mixed sentiments foretold Harvard's often-ambiguous relationship with what Du Bois would famously term "the problem of the 20th century"--race...
...Harvard's most radical experiments in curricular planning took place over a century ago, as we moved from a system with virtually no electives to one with virtually no requirements (1869). Since 1910 we have been fine tuning a fundamental commitment to both breadth (General Education, Later the Core) and depth (the concentrations). Harvard is larger and more complicated than it was in 1869 or 1910, and it is less a community. I find it difficult to imagine that the faculty and administration will come together to authorize sweeping changes...
...Barnard College Office for Public Affairs, for instance, has been flooded with calls since last week's merger announcement. Barnard, an independent women's college, is affiliated with Columbia University. Women attending Barnard can take class and participate in extra-curricular activities at either school...