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This wasn’t always the case. Harvard began as a seminary, and its earliest ideal was Charles Kingsley’s “manly Christian character,” which was propagated in the form of the daily chapel and which the liberal reformist Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, abolished in 1886. Later, with the rise of science, the intellectual program came to revolve around citizenship and manly duty to society and state, but even this identity was lost during the 60s. The inclusion of minorities in the university system made the enforcement of WASP virtues...
Though a popular spot among students and Cantabrigians, it is rare to wait more than 15 minutes on weekend nights. While this makes Le’s an ideal spot on a busy evening in the Square, it also means that the service is a bit rushed and unpleasant. It is typical to receive your entrée before you are even able to start in on your second spring roll...
...When Harvard first started the VDP in the spring of 1995, the involvement of professional adult directors in student drama was controversial, but nearly 12 years later, the students involved overwhelmingly view it as an incredible learning opportunity. According to Phillips, Stern’s flexibility makes him an ideal director for student productions. “Marcus’s style works really well for non-professional theater,” he says. “He gives us a lot of freedom in how to interpret roles. He’s very kind and open...
...faculty discussions of the Core Curriculum in the 1970s were the most interesting of my entire 20 years as President and came closest to representing the ideal intellectual discourse that one would hope to find in a great university,” he wrote...
...Ideal date: Amy R. Schoenfeld...