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...ignorance of history, as Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History Angeliki E. Laiou warned, will delude students into presuming “that we, and our societies, have sprung forth like Athena from the head of Zeus: fully formed, fully armed, with no past to remember, forget, or learn from.” Rather than the urbane cosmopolitans it intends to manufacture, products of Harvard’s new anti-historical General Education will lamentably remain intellectual provincials: short-sighted, unreflective, and distinctly illiberal...
...should teaching.The new FAS dean needs to seriously address Harvard’s failing undergraduate education, before we begin to lag even further behind rival schools. Amid territorial faculty departments, a large FAS deficit and a mire of Harvard bureaucracy, it will be up to the dean to bring forth reforms that will ensure the quality and success of the Harvard education for years to come...
...19th century landscape Kindred Spirits, a local icon that nobody seemed to remember was a local icon until the trucks arrived to take it away. Walton proposed to buy the Eakins jointly with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, then have the two museums shuttle it back and forth. (So that's what they mean by bankrolling...
...Malibu. By the end of January they had cobbled together enough real or potential financing to keep the Eakins at home in a joint purchase by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the much smaller Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), with the same kind of back-and-forth lending between the two institutions. Then came the next shock. To defray its part of the purchase, PAFA announced it was selling a lesser but still important Eakins, The Cello Player. One Eakins saved, one lost...
Nelson supported the idea put forth at the meeting of releasing the names of the two or three Houses that performed most strongly in each area so that they could provide the other Houses with a usable model...