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...much material too fast. These are the same people who rant that these courses unfairly privilege Western values. At least Western civ courses focus on a specific culture within defined boudaries, instead of focusing, like many global civ courses purport to do, on the boundaries where civilizations intersect. As McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven E. Ozment writes in the journal Public Interest, Although interesting and certainly au courant, a history that preoccupies itself primarily with the boundaries of civilizations runs a risk of becoming marginal history...
...means you can have some more flexibility in your schedule,” said Corin M. McLean ’07. “It’s easier to not be obligated to go to every class...
...McLean said she still plans to attend as many lectures...
History 10a cannot be reformed and should be simply abolished. One year ago to this day, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven E. Ozment, then course head for History 10a, lamented that, even at Harvard, few undergraduates study anything prior to the 19th century. Perhaps removing the rudiments of “Western Civilization”-style teaching, which makes studying the ancient past unnecessarily boring, will improve that situation. It might also halt the flow of students moving from History to other concentrations. Incidentally, a distributional requirement would automatically increase the attendance of pre-modern courses. Freshmen...
...many, Buckley is a brilliant thinker, speaker and writer. To others, he is a pitiless, pedantic, pretentious piercer of bleeding hearts. To me he is all these and more. Now that I have learned of his enthusiasm for computers, I consider him a secret blood brother. Richard H. Gramann McLean...