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...number. We have seven days in a week, seven notes on a musical scale and Seven Wonders of the World. The number carries religious symbolism too. God created the world in six days and used the seventh for a rest, and Catholics celebrate seven sacraments and seven virtues. In Jewish weddings the bride circles the groom seven times and the couple has seven days of festive meals. "There are many reasons why people choose the date ranging from 'I figured he'd never forget our anniversary' to the seventh day is the holiest day to we just like the aura...
...small group, led by Cabot House master and Jewish studies scholar Jay M. Harris, will be given the trust and the power to move general education from the debating chamber of University Hall into Harvard’s classrooms...
...meaningful statement on what it means to be educated in today’s world, professors only seemed to care that their parochial corner of academia be included, leaving Harvard with an uninspired retread of the Core Curriculum. It will be up to Smith and Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, who will lead the General Education committee which is to implement the Review’s findings, to breathe life and coherence into the new curriculum.Furthermore, the Faculty repeatedly balked at making teaching evaluations mandatory for all courses. Far from creating a “Harvard version...
...others, “Culture and Belief,” “The United States and the World,” and “Science of the Physical Universe.” Professors will apply to the Standing Committee on General Education, chaired by Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris, for their course to be accepted to one of the eight fields. This framework hopes to eschew the liabilities of the Core, most notably its limited choice and poor course selection, through a more judicious and broadly conceived review process...
...never clear to what extent Harvard would ever become “home” for me. I’m a California boy answering to a Jewish mother. She would kindly ask Emily Dickinson to reconsider her refrain, “Where thou art, that is home.” No, not if your mother is not there. And, even when my mother was in Cambridge, she would note that not everybody else was. That’s not “home.” Besides, “home” should be sunnier...