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...task force’s modesty concerning anything an educated person should know prevents it from establishing any sort of educational standard. If you were to read through the rest of the Gen Ed report, you’d find that the task force never does get around to saying whether there is any specific content whatsoever that an educated person should know. Officially, Harvard will not even broach the topic of whether specific information is necessary for education, let alone declare in what way excellence comes from academic study. In general, the language of this report centers...
...deeply ingrained in the institutional memory of the Holden Choirs—a memory that stretches back further than the Crimson’s archives—that whenever a Holden singer discusses anything that the choruses have done, they’ll use the first person plural. As a result, 19-year-old students with laptops in bag and cell phones in pocket develop a verbal tic of referring to high jinks they enjoyed during the late nineteenth century or early 1970s...
Miron said that the plan would also provide the benefits of continuity in advising and ease in identifying a point person for advising issues...
...Students will be working with one person, instead of graduate students who will ultimately graduate," Miron said. Having a level of "identifiability"—having one person instead of three—will also help students be more comfortable approaching their concentration advisor, he added...
...said that the law offers protections for inanimate property—for example, if a person is too drunk to sign a contract about his or her house, the contract is considered involuntary and therefore null. But the law falls short in terms of evaluating consent regarding autonomy over one’s body...