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...demonstrate that the student body values this skill. This semester’s Expos 40, “Public Speaking Practicum,” garnered 104 applications for only 12 slots. It seems clear that more Harvard students want to learn the rhetorical craft than Expos 40 and a select number of other related courses can accommodate. Considering the demonstrated and professed interest in oratory instruction, Harvard should expand the number of courses that feature public speaking components. Those that already do—like Culture and Belief 11, “Medicine and the Body in East Asia...
...their networks, and because multiple ISPs provide Internet, this ruling may not necessarily lead to higher prices across the board. However, equal access to all electronic content should be considered a right in this new age of connectivity—not a privilege gained by paying additional money for select content...
This past year the National Book Award celebrated its 60th anniversary by conducting a public poll to select the best work of fiction that had won the award. To make the short list for this poll, the National Book Foundation balloted a number of select writers to pick their three favorite winners. Interestingly, four out the six books chosen were short story collections—the collected stories of William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, and John Cheever respectively. Only two were novels—Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity?...
...shadows they appear to be coated in melted candle wax. The work of SMFA students, however, is not confined to the SMFA galleries. Next door, an exhibit at the MFA, which opened on Saturday April 10th, features the work of the five SMFA Traveling Scholars. The scholarship, awarded to select SMFA graduates annually since 1899, funds a year of travel and study, culminating in a show...
...White House doesn't want to reignite the culture wars, so don't expect the President to select a controversial nominee. While the media coverage so far has focused on the potential drama and drawbacks of the possible contenders, Obama is actually in a position to benefit from the opportunity to name another new member of the court. Picking a new Justice is a lot like picking a vice-presidential running mate. Eighty percent of the task is finding someone who the press and the public will instantly believe is eminently qualified for the position. Twenty percent is the public...