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...taught us well. We neglect this education through our continuous and unquestioning accession. Like all parting shots, the message can be neatly summed up with a one-sentence lesson I learned in third grade: Agree to disagree. And, like all parting shots, I will now make this moral seem much more brilliant than it actually is: Debate sows the seeds of democracy. See, the first two letters of each word are the same...
With the many thousands of classes Harvard has to offer its wide-eyed incoming students fresh out of high school, a mandatory semester-long writing course may seem less than desirable...
...full year of writing instruction might seem even worse. Since its inception, Harvard’s writing program has both struggled and strived to meet the needs of freshmen whose writing skills vary on an enormous spectrum. One of the major efforts to close such a gap between students has been the creation in 1985 of a separate expos class engineered for students coming from weaker secondary school writing backgrounds...
...Guide is certainly not an infallible measure. However, when taken in conjunction with other measures, a low ranking in the CUE Guide does seem to suggest that a teaching fellow might profit from some assistance, both for his sake and for the sake of the students that he teachers,” Ozment wrote in his letters...
...things that could go wrong at a university, it may, at first, seem surprising that dishonesty is the most shattering. Next to racist comments, student violence, and faculty paychecks, Wheeler’s fraudulent background has gained more press than any recent Harvard story of late, and it illustrates that academia, more so than any other field, is built on trust. More importantly, from this trust comes our ability to forge and present our own identities...