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...changed world. As conflicts reshape our world yet again, it is time we realize that Michael Caine is right. The decision to make our liberal arts core more rigorous is a difficult but correct one.Pierpaolo Barbieri ’09, a Crimson editorial editor, is a history concentrator in Eliot House...
...this, all you have to do is walk up Massachusetts Avenue. There is a time in the early 1870s, when on one side of Mass. Ave. lay Mass. Hall—then occupied by the newly-instated University President Charles W. Eliot, class of 1853—and on the other side, according to History Professor Donald L. Fleming, was the famed Metaphysical Club of the Cambridge pragmatist thinkers at Chauncey Wright’s apartment at College House...
...Both Eliot and the pragmatists were, broadly, students of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821. What they inherited from him was what Menand terms the “disestablishmentarian impulse”: the distrust of all fixities, the crusade against all institutions and orthodoxies...
...Eliot put this directly into practice when he abolished most of the requirements for undergraduates. Emerson, as usual, put it best when he praised Eliot for resisting the one-size-fits-all policy: “there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind…to expedite…to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one?...
Mark A. Adomanis ’07 is a government concentrator in Eliot House. His column appears on alternate Thursdays...