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...least, such skepticism is clearly an indictment of the admissions process. Harvard students, as we have come to know them, are admitted not on narrow-minded attitudes but rather on their capacity to explore a diverse set of interests. It is ridiculous to assume that a student free to select his or her own courses would devote all 32 course requirements to one topic area...
...positive outcome exists in forcing a student to select a course whose subject matter is most likely to receive cursory attention, when the desire to learn can be peaked by a course more suited to the student's interest. There is a broad impression among undergraduates that the Core fails to meet its goal of making, "Harvard undergraduate education useful, engaging and enlivening." The faculty must ask whether a student ought to memorize and regurgitate or read and discuss. Moreover, those few Cores which do captivate the student fall victim to over-subscription, exacerbating the already prevalent disinterest...
...most promising of those alternatives and one practiced by many universities, a switch to distribution requirements, is ideal. For in allowing the student to select any course from generalized topic areas, such requirements not only allow for students to become a "company of educated men and women," but also respect the student's ability to determine the scope of his Harvard education. In the least, the faculty must expand Core subject areas to include more of the generalized course offerings whose subject matter relates to the program areas...
...Hochey vs. U.S. Select (Scrim...
...endorsement is of Robert Winters, a math preceptor at Harvard. To have a City Council member within the University could encourage students and faculty alike to voice concerns about community affairs. Moreover, we'd like to see at least one teacher as a councillor when it comes time to select the new superintendent of schools. We hope Winters will be able to bring town-gown cooperation to a new level as a literal link between...