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Both Yale and Stanford offer its first-year students optional “Great Books” programs—a unique curriculum that introduces students to texts the colleges deem most important or influential. Yale’s program, “Directed Studies,” attempts to introduce students to the “central texts of the Western tradition,” through a three yearlong courses in literature, philosophy, and historical and political thought. Stanford’s program, “Structured Liberal Education” (SLE), “asks students to confront...
...Great Books” program could be constructed under the auspices of the Harvard College Courses, but should stand out even in that grouping as an intensive introduction to the humanities for first-year students, taking the place of relevant distribution requirements. Perhaps even Expos-style instruction could be incorporated into the program to replace the first-year writing requirement...
Much of the opposition to “Great Books” programs has been against proposals to make them compulsory, but the demand for a comprehensive survey of seminal texts has not waned; and this demand should be met. Currently, there is no way a Harvard first-year can attempt to replicate the type of academic experience—a guided tour of what matters and why—enjoyed by Yale students in “Directed Studies” and Stanford students in SLE. The Wall Street Journal recently commented in response to the curricular review report...
Deeptej Singh, a first-year medical student at B.U. who is a Sikh, said that when he tried to enter the club on the night of May 14, the Kong’s general manager David T. Hayes denied him entrance, citing a Cambridge-wide no-hats policy...
...party, one of the magazine’s editors, Camilla A. Hrdy ’05, said the staff would be door-dropping the magazine to the first-year dormitories starting at 2 p.m. yesterday. As of last night, however, only a few copies from the release party and those bought at the Coop or Nini’s Newsstand could be found circulating around campus...