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Bender, a professor of American history at NYU, has a point to make about the way a class of intellectuals have monopolized ideas. In his view, New York is the only city in the globe that has had to grapple with issues like democratic culture. That is because other cities are either without culture, or too small to mount significant opposition to the intellectual factories known as universities. Bender shows that each New Yorker who rose to prominence had to reconcile abstract ideas with the events of world, had to make expertise and democracy walk hand in hand...
...While NYU has planned to change its schedule, Harvard has seemed satisfied with a calendar that has changed remarkably little over the years...
Harvard's system is unusual, but not unique. There are still some schools--Princeton and New York University (NYU) among them--that have not changed over to the now-customary exam schedule...
...NYU, one of the few remaining institutions that still follows the traditional calendar, plans to change to the new schedule in two years, school officials...
University of Delaware Professor Charles Leslie says he left NYU because he found the situation to be intolerable. "I had known him at Chicago, and I thought that even though he was difficult it would be all right. However, it soon became obvious that he was out to hatchet...