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...Even though the philosophy behind Harvard’s House set-up is “amazingly contemporary,” Nelson said that the renewal project is the perfect opportunity to reevaluate the modern relevance of the nearly 80-year-old system...
...Finally, Rice will give Republicans something to get excited about. Since when have Republicans had a young and energizing candidate? Her novelty will engender Obama-esque press. Because Rice is not the obvious choice for vice president, many will be captivated. In this modern age where the media and the photo-op are pivotal, Rice will keep the Republican Party on the airwaves...
...purchased from the Coop or checked out of Lamont library, students learned about the working-class struggle through the words of Karl Marx, and perused Niall Ferguson’s “Empire” and Christopher A. Bayly’s “Birth of the Modern World” in order to understand the reality of imperialism. We students of the 21st century closed our books this spring having swallowed Michel Foucault’s philosophies of ethics and power, content that our comfort with social theory extends beyond “supply and demand?...
...mandatory introductory courses for concentrators in history and social studies (the “interdisciplinary concentration in the social sciences at Harvard College”) are confined to Western authors and theorists. While no longer mandated (the history department’s current requirements are one course in pre-modern history, one course in Western history, one course in non-Western history, and six additional half-courses in the department or related fields), the traditional survey courses that are so fundamental to a background in historical study have a Western bias. The measly two weeks spent on European expansion...
...original plan presented to Allston residents featured a museum harboring contemporary and modern art holdings in an area known as Barry’s Corner in North Allston, which residents had hoped to revitalize. But for some residents, the plan for Barry’s Corner did not appear to work towards this goal...