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When the police threatened to arrest the entire band if the leaders did not identify themselves, a number of lower-level band officials stepped forward. Seven of them, along with a local drunk, were loaded into a paddy-wagon and taken to the police station...
...depth of the lower-level Humanities and Social Sciences is one problem. These courses have undeniable impact, for their reading lists are scarcely surpassed in the University and they are usually very well taught. But some people wonder if they do not try to do too much, to read too many books. Except Humanities 6, the lower-level Humanities courses read no fewer than eleven great books in a year, and often quite a few more...
With these exceptions, the lower-level courses fulfill their function very well, for all but the exceptionally prepared freshmen who come to Harvard already generally educated in Western culture, ethical and political For a fairly large number from Eastern prep schools, these courses add little to the student's already generous background...
...lecture system remains firmly entrenched as the chief method of teaching at Harvard. Most lower-level courses are taught in some combination of lectures and sections, and the greater number of upper-level courses at the college are taught entirely by lecture...
...courses reflect an overly concern with minutiae, with the great ideas of past man. Lower-level courses have become technical and specialized, any have abdicated their nominal --to give those who may not in the discipline an scope and reach...