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...Emily C. Ingram ’08, a Crimson editor, is a English and American literature and language concentrator in Eliot House...
...famously said that “a human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.” This is why the core of a secondary education is comprised of a set of highly specified academically rigorous courses in math, science, history, and English. Any system of majors that encroaches on this educational core would undermine this critical foundation, increasing intellectual stagnation and paralyzing both academic and all-around growth...
...Other installment series feature girls who seem eternally trapped in ninth grade—there is no sense of linear time, but there are a whole lot of winter semi-formals. The success of McCafferty’s three Jessica Darling novels has proven that not all college-bound English majors are brushing up on Chaucer the summer before they leave for school. The author was among the first to acknowledge the unprecedented level of obsession many American high school students have with the college admissions process—the flaws of which were in fact highlighted by this very...
...College also touched on an issue that sparked controversy at Tuesday’s meeting of the full Faculty, which saw three professors criticize the current system of student course evaluations administered by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). At the meeting, Philip J. Fisher, the Reid professor of English and American literature, said he “learned nothing” from the online evaluations he received last fall...
...dinner, held in the Cabot Dining Hall on May 4, awarded the TF award to Sebastian Velez of the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, the junior faculty award to Lynn Mary Festa, who is the Cowles associate professor of English and American literature and language, and Glenn Adelson, who is a teaching assistant in molecular and cellular biology. The senior faculty award went to Watts Professor of Music Kay K. Shelemay...