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Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09 is a history concentrator in Eliot House. His column, “Foreign Intelligence” will approach international politics from a historical and economic perspective, bringing the rest of the world to the ivory tower on alternate Thursdays...
...Curriculum and Instruction in American Higher Education,” taught by Education professor Julie A. Reuben. According to Calareso, a section of the course provided an intensive overview of the history of the College’s curriculum, from the elective system under former President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, to today’s imminent Gen Ed program. The class encouraged her to reflect on the value of a college education, Calareso said. “The two big questions I always ask are: What does having a Harvard degree mean? And what is unifying, what...
...Alexandra A. Petri ’10 is a joint English and American literature and languages and classics concentrator in Eliot House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...conflict in the Middle East, to extreme poverty in the United States create hardly a breeze in the rarified air at the top of the Ivory Tower. Unlike the days of our parents’ generation, when a combination of American foreign policy and bad grades could send an Eliot resident off to Vietnam, in the post-draft era most Harvard students can be assured of a comfortable existence after graduation regardless of major political developments...
...RYAN J. MEEHANCrimson Staff WriterWalking down the staircase that leads to Eliot Street’s Twisted Village Record Shop, the first thing that commands the eye is a patchwork array of decals along the walls and ceiling. They bristle with dog-eared flyers, bumper stickers, and mascots from long-forgotten guerrilla marketing campaigns, in a kind of polychrome collage fit for a museum exhibit of ephemera. Like butterflies mounted behind glass, they’ve been taken out of their natural habitat, removed from the context of the streetlamps and mailboxes where they meant what they said, into...