Word: experimention
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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But it is not just Harvard's lack of institutional imagination that is at fault for the problems of undergraduate education; students, too, must bear their share of the blame. We students have adopted shamefully passive attitudes toward learning. We come to the College not as scholars but as consumers...
What we students need to do, instead of simply pressuring the administration to make changes, is to take the initiative in reforming our own education. The path has already been blazed by a number of students who have formed an alternative study group within Ec 10 to provide fellow students...
I propose that we students establish the Cambridge New College--an organization that will be devoted to encouraging students to develop and teach their own courses and that will provide them with the resources necessary to do so. The Cambridge New College will aim at developing a diverse curriculum, including...
But one day this past week, I decided to try something different. Each time I walked to and from the Quad, I insisted on saying hello to everybody I passed, both those I recognized and even those I didn't. And the result? It actually turned out to be quite...
After my experiment last week, I do have much hope for Harvard. There really is the potential for such a strong and unique community at Harvard--one which is not plagued with a passive student body, but with perceptive and intense young adults, seeking to understand and be understood by...