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Saltonstall Professor of History Charles S. Maier ’60 echoed Eck’s sentiments, saying the Faculty should concern itself not with general education??s limits but with its flexibility. “As I remember being a student here, the real problem was that there was no time to take what I wanted to take,” he said...
...left a note for Nen to meet me there at a certain time. And when she showed up, the dinner was all set, and we ate there by candlelight.”Pagano explains that even though it may be a challenge to “mix marriage and education?? as both attend graduate school, life would be busy with or without a spouse.“I think if you’re ready, you should try to balance everything and go for marriage, and not put it off just for the sake...
...Reconstruction, Harvard was in need of its own rejuvenation. The Corporation chose Charles William Eliot as president in 1869 after he published an article titled “The New Education?? in The Atlantic Monthly. This “new education,” emphasizing more personal choice and practicality, would need a special kind of leader. The 35-year-old Eliot considered himself that kind...
...this latest report perpetuates one of the worst features of the Core: it is overly constraining.We hope instead that the Task Force’s report forms the foundation for a two-tiered system of general education, one which marries the limited system of special “general education?? courses laid out by the Task Force with a second tier made up of a broad variety of departmental classes that will count for general education credit. Such a system would provide top-notch and applicable courses that would serve as a portal to disciplines a student...
...acknowledging Drew Gilpin Faust’s recent appointment as president of the University. According to Petersen, who, together with Vice President Matthew L. Sundquist ‘09, had spoken with Faust at a reception yesterday, the new president was “very interested in undergraduate education?? and had expressed a desire to attend a UC meeting in the future. In the meantime, the Council continued with the other items on its agenda. It unanimously approved a position paper concerning strategies for facilitating foreign-student procurement of work visas and then moved on to consider...