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...Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, the other co-chair of the general education committee, characterized the overall faculty reception as positive. “There’s clarity and enthusiasm for this option,” Menand said of the subject-matter model. Simmons said she expected further discussion of that rationale between now and the presentation of a revised report at the Faculty’s next meeting on Dec. 12. “Coming out of the meeting, it seemed that the biggest issue for us to wrestle with is whether...
...third movement he suggested was more contested. Hyman spoke of how the German model of a liberal education—independent departments working independently—was irremediably outdated today. Many significant areas of knowledge were simply not being conveyed to students because departments would not extend themselves beyond conventional boundaries...
...Tuesday, however, this forward-thinking model was endangered. The first regular Faculty meeting to discuss the October general education report was contentious and left no clear decision in sight. Some professors opposed the content-based approach of the report, wishing rather for a methodological emphasis that would introduce students to the tools of various disciplines. Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw, for one, was in this camp. He raised the possibility, as reported in yesterday’s Crimson, of distribution requirements rather than a unified, interdisciplinary approach...
...another textureless math grind.” At Vanderbilt, a former admissions staffer offered that Asians “are very good students, but don’t provide the kind of intellectual environment” that colleges are looking for. THE FIRST “MODEL MINORITY”On January 7, 1928, six years after Harvard President and acknowledged xenophobe A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, decided to make it his business to keep Jews out of Harvard, an article called “Trial By Jewry” appeared in The Harvard Crimson. The article...
...George Bernard Shaw once said, ‘People who are merely specialists are basically idiots,’” Hoffman said, looking in Mankiw’s direction. “I don’t take it as my model, but there’s something...