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Almost four hundred students signed up the next week for Humanities 119--The Narrative Art--a course Van Doren devised in his last years at Columbia. Some say it is the best course they've ever taken, others that it is the loudest of the roaring guts. Whatever the consensus...
Take a pretty good college baseball team and subtract the guts of the League's best infield, the League's leading hitter, a player now working in the N.Y. Giants farm system, and a starting pitcher. The result is some thing resembling the 1963 Harvard squad.
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Great history professors often teach guts. The modern European history course given by Yale's eminent Hajo Holborn, though currently in abeyance because he is on leave, customarily enrolls some 350 students, who rely on a couple of textbooks, call the course "Page a Day with Hajo Holborn," and...
The fact that such gems exist even at mighty Harvard is no evidence that college is as easy as ever. On the contrary, the toughness of other courses makes guts all the more precious. When pressed, some Harvard gut-seekers concede feelings of "intellectual dishonesty." But most agree with one...