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...many enticements that even a Harvard student must succumb to, god forbid, a social life. We have had to endure tea parties, Candy Land tournaments, and a parade of naked people just to pass the time. The administration is testing us, of course. This endless “reading?? period is a farcical misnomer, a veritable play-time rather than the hell for which we paid $42,000. It is just another lemon in the large pile that Harvard deals its students. Unfortunately, I am not a juicer, and neither are my friends, so squeezing lemonade from...
Harvard’s faculty and its student body, however, seem to have two conflicting visions of what “reading?? means. Students see Reading Period as a time to prepare for final examinations. It is a time to catch up on reading, go over one’s notes, and attend review sessions. It is also a time to regroup, reflect, and rest before the chaos of final examinations...
...papers should be due during “Reading?? Period. Term papers for classes without finals should be due either before Reading Period or during Finals Period. And papers for classes with finals should be assigned earlier, so students have more control over how they want to budget their time. These papers should be due before Reading Period to give students a full and uninterrupted complement of time to study for finals...
...Lamont’s concentration-killing reading rooms among undergraduates, I fear that the College is going to call in the same crew to cover Hilles with bicolored wood-paneling, floor lamps, and giant, plush chairs, clear out all the books and create a new “reading?? room in the Quad Library. Not only would this be inefficient in terms of space (where the library is eliminating essentially all of its holdings and consolidating to a single floor) but would be practically sacrilege to Hilles’ amazing architectural pedigree. The architects who designed Hilles?...
...survey suggested that most students complete only 43 percent of their assigned reading??—regardless of the length of their reading list. However, citing Social Studies 10 as an example, he explained that this number almost doubles when students understand the rationale behind the syllabus...