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...notice any noisy [Harvard]students. The nature of students here at Harvard is different than at schools like Stanford and Duke," Yamins says. "Students here drink behind closed doors--at final clubs, in their rooms...
...When sports fans in the 1950s argued the talents of baseball Hall of Fame center fielders Mickey Mantle, Willie Mays and Duke Snider, conversations centered around home runs and championship rings, not the sharpness of their tongues. Too bad for the kids growing up in the Golden Age of Baseball. Look at what they were missing...
...like we're without role models in sports today. Recently retired NFL star Barry Sanders proved it's possible to dominate and not humiliate. Duke's Mike Krzyzewski proves it's possible to coach winning players who leave school without scandal and with diplomas. Bernie Williams proves it's possible to take a pitcher deep without showing...
...young Crosby, Giddins argues convincingly, was a major musical innovator who all but single-handedly created the modern manner of microphone-assisted singing that dominates pop to this day. He roomed with Bix Beiderbecke, recorded St. Louis Blues with Duke Ellington and formed a mutual-admiration society with Louis Armstrong (Louis taught Bing how to scat; Bing taught Louis how to croon...
There could not be a better time to reevaluate the Core curriculum and its place within undergraduate education. Over the past six years, many prestigious universities-- including Princeton, Stanford and Duke--have overhauled their own graduation requirements. The arrival of the next president will offer us a rare opportunity to focus on undergraduate education with new vigor and fresh insight. Harvard led the way in 1979--it cannot afford to rest on its laurels any longer...