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...kayaking career came to a close, Cushman returned to the first “obscure?? sports team that had captured her heart—the Crimson Nordic ski team, for which she served as the head coach from...
...Wordy Shipmates” dives right into its historical focus, the life and times of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Among the vaunted cast of America’s founding patriarchs (and matriarchs), the icons of John Winthrop, Roger Williams, John Endicott, and Anne Hutchinson are increasingly obscure??and Vowell knows it. But their virtual anonymity in the American cultural lexicon leaves them as blank slates for Vowell to fill in with tireless research and her own humanizing perspective.Fans of “This American Life” will know that, like most contributors, Vowell...
...event, each co-sponsoring group submitted 10 questions concerning the major beliefs, people, holidays, and scriptures of their religion. No student was allowed to answer a question concerning his or her own religion.“I was very pleasantly surprised by how many facts—some obscure??students knew about other faiths,” said Sabrina A. Zearott ’09, the council’s publicity chair. “I didn’t realize how aware Harvard students are of other faiths.”Zearott herself answered one such obscure...
...colleges have markedly turned their attention to offering more “relevant” and “practical” programs, according to the ever- and swiftly-changing employment markets. As college degrees proliferate, awarded in every imaginable field—from the provincial to the obscure??the relative value and meaning of each correspondingly plummets...
...Core classes. With no competition from departmental courses, which are not permitted to count for credit, many Core classes have been allowed to become irrelevant—like Science B-57, “Dinosaurs And Their Relatives”—while others border on the obscure??for instance, Literature and Arts B-48, “Chinese Imaginary Space.” The welcome exceptions to this rule—such as Moral Reasoning 22, “Justice”—have unsurprisingly swelled in class size.We cannot see any reason...