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...funniest thing in the play is when one of the characters sees Millie reading Carson McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Cafe and warns her mother of its pernicious content. But Millie is saved by Alan, who tells the mother that the book is on the reading list for the modern novel course at his college. Alas, even the play's overt humor eludes the cast...
Second, Harvard's 1988-89 tuition rate of $12.715 is the lowest for any of the seven Ivy League institutions whose tuition rates have been announced. Adding room, board, and health fees to tuition raised Harvard's cost from the bottom of the list to third because our room rates are quite high. There are several reasons for this: the Harvard house system is significantly more comprehensive than that found even at comparable institutions: metropolitan Boston is among the most expensive areas in the United States in which to live; and Harvard has been investing large sums in the renovation...
Faculty members point out that the new list, which was never meant to be exhaustive, will be supplemented by readings that will vary depending on the emphasis of different CIV teachers. Yet the compromise is a clear signal that Stanford intends to recognize the essential pluralism of Western civilization -- in literary as well as social terms. The major remaining question is how far professors will go in bringing the study of women and minorities into CIV courses...
...hard-core revisionists are able to suit the word to the action. "We want the idea of a canon eliminated," insists William King, 21, chairman of Stanford's Black Student Union. "The idea that there could be a core list is Eurocentric and biased." Similar opinions are heard at other schools. At Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., Professor Arnold Krupat declares flatly that there is nothing sacred or broadly cultured about any such canon. In fact, he claims, the idea "is almost exclusively Wasp, male and East Coast...
Given the probing, contentious nature of scholarly minds, any permanent settlement of these centuries-old issues seems unlikely. Despite the soul searching at Stanford and elsewhere, no reading list is ever going to satisfy everyone. Nor should it. Even friends of Stanford's original 15 readings concede that they constituted a mighty loose little canon -- for example, two pieces by Freud, but no Shakespeare and not a word by any American writer or political philosopher, such as James Madison...