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Dartboard got to sit down a couple days ago in his DHA sweats and have a good ponder about some issues facing Fair Harvard—specifically, University President Lawrence H. Summers’ plans for expansion and the less-than-healthy tension between Cambridge and our university. As we know, the Quad is no longer enough to satiate the Harvard housing monster, and since those ungrateful commie Cantabrigians won’t yield any land, the University may need to exile students to Allston—all the way across the Charles. But students won’t want...
...WORKERS: Targeted more, relief groups ponder cuts...
...introductory chat. It seemed a bit obvious--ship movie, ship interview--and I wondered if it wasn't a clumsy gesture designed to focus the conversation on knots and fathoms rather than more interesting matters like bar brawls and love affairs. But soon there were other surprises to ponder...
...this weekend in the Agassiz Theatre, dates from 1812 and ranked as one of the most successful operettas in America until the Civil War. Given its period, it was no surprise to find that it’s horribly dated—the type of show where men ponder “the benefits and liabilities of having a strong-willed wife” in song. As such, it was difficult to know if we, the modern audience, were laughing with the production or at it—did those 19th-century viewers guffaw as we did at lines like...
Currently, however, Harvard does not require anyone to ponder Shakespeare’s truths, much less to read a word of his plays. Casting the rejection of standards as an enlightened educational revolution, the Core bureaucrats giddily proclaim: “The Core...does not define intellectual breadth as the mastery of a set of Great Books, or the digestion of a specific quantum of information, or the surveying of current knowledge in certain fields.” But there are some Great Books that citizens of Western society, in order to be educated men and women, really should read...