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...does not define intellectual breadth as...the surveying of current knowledge in certain fields." Most arguments raised concerning the Core focus on the shortage, if not mere lack, of what we at Harvard hear our friends from other colleges call "survey courses." Many feel Core classes are far too narrow for a curriculum which claims its intent is to foster a board education. Taking Literature and Arts B - 3 9 ("Michelangelo") clearly is not the same as taking an art survey class. This argument criticizing the limited number of broad survey courses is not the root of failure...
...book was based on four assumptions and if any of them proved to be false then so did Murray's thesis. Fine. Then he claimed that it was possible that three of the four were wrong. Fine. Then he pointed out that Murray's definition of intelligence is too narrow and that he would probably use a more broad definition. Fine. Where is the "stinging criticism?" Between his jokes and smug jabs at Murray, Gould essentially said that the book could very easily be wrong, and that he thought it probably was. Of course it could be wrong! Murray even...
...Sarajevo, temporarily bouying Bosnian spirits, but ultimately leaving them disappointed and less hopeful than before. An edited sequence of interviews with Mitterand and Izetbegovic plays up the dissimulation inherent in Western policy in Bosnia. But the politics are personal, limited to these two men and the context remains narrow...
...reflection, I realized there are many worthwhile majors that are not necessarily useful. What had been upsetting me was that Harvard should be a place where students learn to transcend narrow-minded ethnic and gender prejudices, rather than where they are reinforced or created...
Despite the narrow loss, the netmen were upbeat about their weekend performances...