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...compulsion toward self-isolation to a degree not common to the other sciences. It is the ugly, productive child that avoids her peers. (This may hint at the rationale for the current cosmetic change.) The reasons are varied and many, and I’d rather not appraise a field??s essence for rebellious idiosyncrasies. But both the recent decline of the liberal arts model, as well as the field??s history of self-fragmentation, suggest that the creation of SEAS is a step in the wrong direction...
...Ensuring the quality of the educational mission—the whole question of whether the various parts of the University are doing the best that they possibly can in their part of the field??is obviously beyond the reach of the Corporation, given their size and the amount of time that they have,” Lorsch says. “The Overseers could live up to their name and really oversee...
...juggling depositions and trial preparation, batting orders and pitching rotations. Rather than choose between his children, he coached all three, spring and autumn, for the better part of a decade. Fueled only by the lousy hot dogs available on-site, he logged far more hours at the local ball field??which, as of this Saturday, will bear his name—in a given weekend than anyone actually competing, umpired when he was through managing, and returned home only after his fair Irish skin had been burned sufficiently red.Some marveled at his level of dedication and commitment...
...late 1940s and the creation of DEAS), but doing so would split. Harvard’s undergraduate population in a way that would run contrary to the colorful character of a liberal arts institution. Engineering could become a five-year program, with more time for exploration to complement the field??s hefty requirements. But Harvard would then lose the collegiality that America’s four-year college tradition exists to ensure.Unsatisfying a compromise it may be, the solution seems to be preserving the undergraduate engineering program as distinct from the new school, injecting a paltry dose...
...stark emptiness of O’Donnell Field??bases uprooted, Princeton’s players gone, only a few kids running around the grass after the game—there it was, cruelly juxtaposed against the shining sun and chirping birds: a finish line...