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...philosophy and meaning. Scrambling to salvage the review, a new group of professors released another report in November that attempted to please everyone by requiring students to take three courses each in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. Unsurprisingly, this report, which again lacked any meaningful definition of general education, pleased no one and was also quickly squashed. Once again a Faculty committee was sent to the drawing board. Unable to agree on anything and fatigued of the issue, professors last month approved a new set of proposals, which effectively upgrades the Core by redefining it with...
She added that with plans to open new museums in Allston, the opening of the New College Theater, and the appointment of a new dean of the Graduate School of Design, “we need to take a much more systematic and University-wide look at how Harvard approaches...
President Summers seemed to mistake the campus’s persistent invocation of the precious term “dialogue” for a bona fide invitation to frank discussion. Of course, he was wrong—“dialogue” is a vacuity hiding behind a pretty...
“I’m looking forward to spending many years sleeping on floors with no money,” says Isaac H. Ravishankara ’07 of his immediate future. But his friends believe he will thrive in his creative projects in the real world as...
I found that I could write 24 pages in under 24 hours and still do well. I learned that a lot of the education you get at college happens outside the classroom. And I learned how to deal with failure, even if most Harvard students don’t understand...