Word: relatedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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One of the more annoying traits that spending four years at Harvard fosters is a reverence for everything related to this institution: its alumni, its traditions, its so-called mystique, etc. This reverence translates into a disturbing arrogance.
This arrogance also is manifested by a reluctance to criticize anything related to Harvard and the (rarely articulated) assumption that any student who graduated from this institution is endowed with near supernatural attributes of intelligence and judgment.
Two related criticisms have been leveled against the Core: that its guiding principle--the requirement that Core courses "consiously address the approach being used"--is, in the words of a student report, untenable and unworkable; and that Core requirements restrict students' choices in ways that have little intellectual justification. The...
My own experience (in Science A-18ab, Science A-22, Chemistry 8/9, Mathematics 28/29 and Astronomy 120) suggests that such sections are most effective when they: deal rigorously and in depth with individual topics that connect with one another to make a coherent narrative or argument; have reading assignments that...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: More than 60 years after the U.S. Public Health Service launched its infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, President Clinton issued the government's first formal apology to survivors and their families. "What was done cannot be undone, but we can end the silence," Clinton said at an emotionally-charged...