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...Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Philip A. Kuhn, who is chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, says that asking professors to teach during January would be problematic for administrative reasons...
...Core courses tend to obliterate all the nooks and crannies in the course catalog that students come to be interested in,” says Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Chair of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Philip A. Kuhn. “They also suck the life out of department courses because the enrollments become too small to sustain them...
This all crossed my mind, ironically enough, while sitting in a building—maybe 700 meters from Big John—that was built to be Harvard’s student center. In 1899, Governing Board member and philanthropist Major Henry Lee Higginson announced his donation of “a great house on college grounds” that would serve to unite the divided student body. The lavish building was to be the center of undergraduate life, with “ample space for reading, study, games, and conversation,” a library, offices for all student...
Higginson’s extremely generous gift served students well, that is until the University took it over—twice—for purposes other than reading, study, games or conversation. First it was the freshman dining hall in 1930 (Higginson “was a freshman in spirit,” administrators explained), and then it was gutted in the 1990s to create the Barker Center, the great house of the humanities...
...what about our “great house” where we are to “keep steadily burning the fire of high ideals,” as Higginson hoped...