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To begin with, Harvard has been overall unsuccessful in its attempts to provide a liberal-arts education. The burden of unexciting, core survey courses combined with fairly strict and rigorous concentration requirements provide for very little room to truly experiment. On top of this, the cutthroat environment around letter grades...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly | Title: The Roof, The Roof Is On Fire | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

What does it mean for science to be an integral part of a liberal-arts education? How does understanding science productively complement the ability to read Shakespeare closely or to dissect a painter’s artistic intent? Part of the answer rests on the intellectual value of tackling a...

Author: By Robert A. Lue | Title: Science and the Liberal Arts | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

It is the teaching of science to a freshman audience that is particularly fulfilling and at the same time challenging—partly because my colleagues and I don’t subscribe to the long-standing notion that one should teach one kind of science to future science concentrators...

Author: By Robert A. Lue | Title: Science and the Liberal Arts | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Most Harvard seniors agree that Harvard tends to have a left-leaning student body, pegging themselves as somewhat more moderate than their peers, but substantially more liberal than the rest of the country as a whole. Few Harvard students see themselves as very conservative, either on campus or more broadly...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Politics | 5/25/2010 | See Source »

In the e-mailed message, Wheeler expressed his plans to study English at Harvard, since he had not experienced the support for humanities that he so desired at MIT, where he said he had spent his first undergraduate year—contradicting prosecutors’ allegations that Wheeler actually had...

Author: By Xi Yu and Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Harvard Faker Calls Self "Sententious, Crypto-tendentious, Slightly Pedantic" | 5/18/2010 | See Source »

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