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...United States must have a strong president in order to maintain a position of leadership in the free world, former Texas Gov. John B. Connally said last night in a lecture at Harvard Law School...
...serious about helping students to overcome parochialism, perhaps the time has come to review the experience of other institutions in encouraging study abroad in order to discover whether some suitable program can be devised for Harvard. And it is surely important to enlist our alumni in other countries to help us do more to develop opportunities for interesting work abroad...
...order to keep a Harvard education from becoming passive and slack, we must try to balance lectures with a constant counterpoint of papers, seminars, tutorials, and discussion sections where students must first make use of what they have read and heard by developing their own thoughts and then expose their work to the scrutiny of more mature minds. These are the experiences most likely to help students think more clearly and precisely yet it is these experiences that are most endangered across the country by huge enrollments and tight financial constraints...
...elements of the curriculum are all strongly supported by faculty, alumni, and students alike. But almost all agree that further progress needs to be made. For example, in a survey several years ago, students, faculty and alumni came to remarkably similar conclusions when they were asked to rank in order of importance more than 30 possible reforms of the College...
...constitution as the best alternative to the fairly miserable current state of student influence on policy decisions at Harvard. A lot depends on the impressions students have about the authors of the constitution If there is a feeling that the convention delegates are building castles in the air in order to one day live in them, then little will convince students to take the efforts of the convention seriously. However, if students feel the convention delegates are conscientious, self-abnegating students who are merely trying to make life better for their fellow students, then the chances of the proposed student...