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...This technology has potential applications for online learning. To use a present-day computer, you have to learn how to use a keyboard and mouse, which may be hard for those who have little or no experience typing. But with touch screens, people will be able to send handwritten messages to children and receive hand-painted pictures in reply. Masatoshi Nishikawa, Tokyo...
...story of the present-day UC is much older than that—beginning with the burst of activism surrounding the University’s perceived support of the United States military during the Vietnam War, most notably the presence of ROTC on campus. It was amidst the confusion and enmity so characteristic of the era that the student government—a body known as the Harvard Undergraduate Council (HUC)—crumbled, leaving the fate of student legislature largely to a committee led by historian Merle Fainsod, the then-director of the Harvard Library...
...professors voted that students be required to take one course engaged “substantially with the study of the past”—a move described by one historian as “mostly symbolic” but important for fellow colleagues who have criticized the present-day focus of the proposed curriculum.The question of how departmental courses will fit in was left to the yet-to-be-named roster of the Standing Committee on General Education—which will fill in the blanks of the new general education structure that the Faculty called for yesterday.President...
...professors voted that students be required to take one course engaged “substantially with the study of the past”—a move described by one historian as “mostly symbolic” but important for fellow colleagues who have criticized the present-day focus of the proposed curriculum...
...professors voted that students be required to take one course engaged “substantially with the study of the past”—a move described by one historian as “mostly symbolic” but important for fellow colleagues who have criticized the present-day focus of the proposed curriculum...