Word: focusing
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Matthew R. Greenfield ’08, a UC member who sits on the CUE, said that the report’s focus on real-world applicability marks a fundamental change in the rationale behind a Harvard education...
...every generation of her family has had a habit of writing long, detailed letters or journals. Moved by these records, Munro has crafted an uneven but poignant collection of penetrating meditations that partially deal with the effects of religion and poverty on lives and attitudes across generations, but mostly focus on the intimate nature of identity, the way every detail of a life—worn linoleum, movie magazines, apple trees in bloom—becomes important to a person as she attempts to find her place in the world. It is, she says, a fictionalized family history and memoir...
...We’re trying to take it one game at a time, and each game is just as important as the next.”When asked what Harvard needed to do to succeed this weekend, both Chu and Sifers stressed the importance of the team focusing on its own play instead of the play of its opponent.“We’re trying to focus on our own hockey,” Chu said.If the Crimson’s first matchups against both Yale and Brown are any indication, then this focus could very well result...
...That’s because the class, Psychology 1003, has a different focus that most Psych classes. It’s not cognitive, abnormal, or even positive psych—it’s the Psychology of Sport. And not surprisingly, the students reflect the subject matter...
Harvard needs to learn from history and avoid replacing one academic fad with another. The Task Force’s focus on “today’s issues” is just as arbitrary and transient as the “ways of learning” system developed and introduced in 1979. Nothing in the new General Education proposal convinces me that within thirty years another revamping won’t be needed. Instead the College needs to foster a return to liberal arts proper—a place where knowledge is not taught to develop abstract modes...