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...sumé that read much like that of many an English concentrator and budding journalist that came before. Internships at publishing houses and magazine corporations, articles penned for an odd collection of campus publications, the cherished (if inactive) title of Crimson editor. I had planted myself firmly on a road well paved with Harvard grads of the past and was about to veer off-track due to a momentary decision in the hazy afterglow of a ham and cheese sandwich...
...afterthought: “But as long as I have you here, how much do you know about food?” I could answer the latter with ease, less because of my vast array of culinary knowledge than the skillful art perfected by any graduating English concentrator of elegantly saying nothing at all. The first, however, gave me pause...
...Rebecca A. Kaden ’08, a Crimson editorial writer, is an English and American literature and language concentrator in Kirkland House. She does not, unsurprisingly, enjoy a nice meal à-la-HUDS...
...Harvard undergraduates to an incoherent education. To hasten the development of Gen Ed, incoming Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds must refocus Gen Ed around a meaningful educational philosophy. In their preliminary report a year and a half ago, the chairs of the Task Force on General Education, English professor Louis Menand and philosophy professor Allison Simmons, presented a brand of liberal education that sought to prepare students to engage with an increasingly globalized and multicultural world. It was more than just a revamped Core curriculum; Gen Ed was meant to be a forerunner in 21st century American higher...
...relation between those who create art and those who critique it is notoriously fraught, something that was evident quickly to the standing-room only crowd in Sever Hall last night that watched novelist Jonathan Franzen face English professor James Wood, who has been one of his toughest critics. Wood, who is also a staff writer for The New Yorker, is noted for his censure of the postmodern social novel, which he termed the “contemporary American novel in its big triumphalist form” in a 2001 review of Franzen’s novel...