Word: overviews
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General Education courses, established in May 1946, were envisioned as a broad overview of science and Western literature...
...unsubstantiated, insensitive and even bizarre. But in their (justified) haste to condemn his theatrical diatribe, students might wish to think twice before rushing to Rudenstine's defense. "Diversity and Learning" does do an admirable job at outlining the theoretical justifications for affirmative action. But behind Rudenstine's feel-good overview of diversity in higher education are glaring omissions: he ignores both the problematic history of affirmative-action programs at Harvard, and the decades-old legacy of dissatisfaction and frustration among its minority students. The report is not so much an assessment of "diversity and learning" at Harvard as a thinly...
...Fellows who will be spending the semester at the Kennedy School were introduced afterwards in a panel. The fellows offered their views on politics and provided an overview of their ideas and experiences...
...give them an overview of the landmarks, and I try to insinuate quite a few things about how to read a literary text," Damrosch says...
...There's a lot of information [students] need to get," said Marianne Blanchard '82, who is organizing the booth for Abt Associates, a financial and economic consulting firm. "It's hard in that forum to give people a good overview...