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...month long tour of American northeastern colleges in an effort to foster greater cultural understanding.The group constituted one of two assembled on the basis of geographical area and professional interest. While one group toured universities in the Northeast, the other toured those in the Midwest.The 12 visitors—eight men and four women—arrived in Cambridge, where they surveyed the Harvard campus, met with University administrators and students, and attended lectures and conferences. The delegates were selected in such a way as to guarantee representation of various facets of Soviet life. Among the members were Vlasenko, movie...
...that students take classes outside their specialized areas. Both advocate the development of a specific set of such courses for non-specialists to ensure that each student gains something the college can call a “liberal arts education.” And both subdivide such courses into eight subject areas, some of which map onto each other with absurd precision. Did we really wait four years to see the “Literature and Arts” requirement renamed “Aesthetic and Interpretive Understanding?” “Moral Reasoning,” renamed...
...funny and sensitive, and get a really pretty, sweet girl to fall in love with you and then play baseball. 3. Ride a dragon. 4. Invent a bouncy cage that never deflates, bounces really high, was once used by Rutherford B. Hayes, and can fly. 5. Watch Stepbrothers eight times in the span of two days and memorize it because it’s the best movie ever and anyone who hates Will Ferrell will have the smack laid down on their candy ass. 6. Become a dragon. 7. Manage a baseball team without letting anyone else know. 8. Host...
...most fascinating stuff imaginable.” Coming from Denver to Harvard was, in those days, still vaguely unusual: Denver was remote and provincial, far from the colorful melting pots of 19th century New Orleans, or ancient Rome. His storytelling father, a newspaperman, died when Howe was eight years old, widowing his mother and making money scarce. It was only a National Scholarship from Harvard that allowed Howe to afford an Ivy League education. Recalling his early days of transition between Denver and Harvard, Howe interrupts himself to say, “By the way, in those days transportation meant...
...equivalent of $287.5 million today, marked the most extensive fundraising campaign to be undertaken by Harvard—or by any other educational institution—at the time. Quincy’s construction translated President Pusey’s ambitious plans for an expanded campus into a modern, eight-story high-rise reality.AVANT-GARDE OR ARTISTIC MISHAP?As the first undergraduate residence to be built after the original seven river Houses of the early 1930s under President Lowell, in 1959 Quincy represented a new Harvard, breaking with the Georgian-modeled House system. The current site of Quincy House...