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...fewer than 40 students counted the Classics as their concentration, and expectedly only a slim number of those outside the department included any study of Greek and Latin among their coursework. This dearth of classical learning at the nation’s most prestigious university is no doubt lamentable??especially so as the current Core, with its multicultural distribution requirements, transitions into a general education program that leaves no place for dead languages in its “globalized” curriculum.Despite the anti-classical bias of today’s educators, a rudimentary knowledge in both Latin...
Perhaps it’s not surprising—though it is certainly lamentable??to find students out of the loop on the highest-level decisions at the University. But it is not just students who are complaining. At a “town hall” meeting for science faculty last Tuesday, professors from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) protested the unsatisfactory trickle of information coming from Mass. Hall about building in Allston. In particular, they wondered why a report by former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles arguing against moving FAS sciences across...
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