Word: moralisms
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...Professional education is in the proud tradition of many great universities, but it is not the mission of our undergraduate college. Our students will devote some significant part of their time to special and concentrated learning, but we aspire above all that they graduate having developed their intellectual, artistic, moral, and civic capacities as independent thinkers with a lifetime of learning still before them. That is what we mean when we welcome our graduates to the "fellowship of educated women...
...students will enter a globalizing world of national conflicts, of scientific advance and moral challenge, of political choice and economic uncertainty, of artistic imagination and cultural repression. There is no "one-size-fits-all" educational menu for such alternative futures, nor would one be appropriate for the enormously diverse talents that comprise the student body at Harvard College. Thus, while there are of course many curricular routes to liberal education, the one proposed in these reports sets out a curriculum of choice, incentive, and opportunity more than one of restriction and requirement. It aims to allow our students to shape...
...Faculty still appears divided on several issues, including whether a moral reasoning requirement should be added to the General Education structure. But if some votes are completed in the seven Faculty meetings scheduled for the spring semester, students could begin to see changes next year...
...MORAL OF NANNY MCPHEE SEEMS TO BE THAT CHILDREN CAN HANDLE HONESTY FROM ADULTS. IS THAT WHAT YOU BELIEVE? They're miles more O.K. with the sort of rigors, tragedy and innate chaos of life than we are. This understanding of chaos is something we lose as we get older. It's a shame, because it makes us much more rigid...
...Chinese couples divorcing in 2004, a 21% rise from the year before, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. "Before in society, we had a sense of right and wrong," says the China Sexology Association's Hu. "Now, we can do whatever we want. But do we have any moral standards left...