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...that all students should be proficient writers after completing a course in Expository Writing, which has been required of all first years since 1872 and, at least in theory, molds each freshman into an essay-writing maestro. And yet professors, teaching fellows, and students all see examples of sub-par writing far too frequently. This begs the question of just how well Harvard does in teaching writing...
...their sick, hateful sense of humor as the price to pay for their friendship. Some of my friends and I—we all rigorously adhere to an ethic of cultural relativism—call these people, “The Bad People.” They are on par with people who make conversation during television shows, hold opinions about Undergraduate Council candidates, or sing “Happy Birthday” in restaurants...
Dingman said that the new director will have a level of responsibility on par with the three resident deans of freshmen, who are currently Lesley Nye Barth, Sue Brown, and William Cooper ’94. But the new director will not have similar one-on-one responsibilities with students...
...Parise, with music by Mark P. Musico ’07 and a script by Warland “Trey” L. Kollmer ’07 and Josh C. Phillips ’07, “The Tent Commandments” is a fast-paced spectacle par excellence. Puns! Sex jokes! Glitter! Rhyming! Sex jokes again! Yes, it may get a little tiresome, but no opportunity goes unexploited...
...committee report says, because graduates of Harvard "will have to decide, for example, what medical treatments to undergo, when a defendant in court has been proven guilty, whether to support a policy proposal and how to manage their personal finances." Does this mean balancing a checkbook is on a par with balancing equations? What about learning for learning's sake? What about the study of history, which Harvard will no longer require, even though its recently announced new president, Drew Gilpin Faust--the first woman to head the institution--is a renowned historian...