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...that stage, is scheduled for the weekend of March 16-18. If not, Harvard is still a likely bet to qualify for the eight-team tournament field, which contests its quarterfinals the weekend prior. Meaning Chu and Cahow, and their Crimson teammate, Canadian team mainstay Sarah Vaillancourt, for that matter, will not get an extended break from ultra-competitive hockey until mid-April at the earliest. “I just want to enjoy the last few weeks of my season and get the most out of it as possible and maybe try to extend my college career...
Something most Harvard students don’t realize about shopping period: It’s not over until the fat lady sings. Or, more accurately, until some lady—her weight and looks don’t really matter, because she loves her body, of course—buzzes to a crowd of excitable college girls about their need for increased awareness of sexual health and politics. Also, their need for orgasms—you’re not a real woman unless you’ve had lots of them, and the reason you?...
...points to a clear solution: a two-tiered system for General Education at Harvard. The first tier should comprise the courses that are developed specifically for General Education and listed separately at the front of the Courses of Instruction. Here the pedagogical guidelines should be strict and the topic matter broad—we are not interested in having General Education courses about dinosaurs or Chinese imaginary space. These courses, aimed at non-concentrators, should be the focus of much Faculty attention in the coming years.The second tier of courses, consisting of departmental alternatives, should be much more liberal...
...committee that happens to be chaired by the mayor and the city manager,” she said. “I do not care about the newspaper, and nor should anybody else in this room.” When Decker attempted to comment on the matter further, Simmons moved that the council vote on the matter immediately. The measure passed, earning six votes to two against, with Mayor Reeves abstaining. However, despite the objections of Simmons and Councillor Henrietta Davis, Decker then spoke against the tone of the proceedings. “If this is an election year, let?...
...devoted primarily to the development of an individual’s character. In some form or another, this was the central idea behind both the classical Greek notion of paideia and the 18th and 19th century German idea of Bildung. Getting a general education, on these models, was a matter of becoming sensitive to the demands of the “good life”—of learning what was admirable to aspire to and of developing the character to pursue such aspirations. Since then, and to our great detriment, we have rejected this model entirely...