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...Core curriculum was created in 1979 with the best of intentions and the loftiest of goals. Proponents of the system saw it as a way to ensure that Harvard graduates were not only educated in a particular subject but also familiar with “the major approaches to knowledge” in several key areas, to quote the official Core website. The philosophy of the Core Curriculum, the website’s mission statement explains, is that if students are familiarized with different ways of critical thinking about cultural, social, historical, and scientific problems instead of told to master...
...explosive. Bush had delivered most of the night's speech competently and without magic. Its success was in its looping, reinforcing structure, which allowed him to leave his listeners with a clear memory of his priorities without having to leave any particular phrase tattooed on their brains. The loftiest language came after that rousing tax-cut sale, in 10 minutes of rhetorical flourishes touching on how all the best things in life - from free trade to internationalism to missile defense to a military restructuring - in fiscal 2001 would be free...
Lincoln went on to worry that great and ambitious men, living after the great deeds of the Founding, might achieve fame through destruction rather than preservation of political institutions. An ambitious man of the loftiest genius, he wrote, "would as willingly, perhaps more so, acquire [distinction] by doing good as harm; yet, that opportunity being past, and nothing left to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down." To overcome such a threat, Lincoln argued, a people must be united together and to their government...
...loftiest plan I've heard to solve our problems of separation, an Undergraduate Council presidential candidate promised to forge a "Healthier Community." The Crimson derided such plans last week as too "vague." But the paper seized upon the wrong word; it wasn't just a weak choice of adjectives that rendered the platform suspect. The point that painting the whole College as one community might be fraudulent never came up. Yes, students at the Law School or School of Education, usually bound by similar pasts and futures, truly have something. But students here haven't all come from similar backgrounds...
ANOTHER WINNER! In Notebook Contest #5, we asked readers to design a balloon for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Of the many John Glenns we received, that sent in by Terence Dungan of New Paltz, N.Y., was the loftiest. "It's...like watching your favorite grandfather go up into space," he says...