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...Good Thing when your family doctor is well-versed in the ins and outs of both Kant and cardiac arrest, and of course long division (for the sake of argument) should not be beyond the reach of even the most diehard lit-critter. An entire semester??s-worth of courses aligned explicitly as outside the interests set forth by the student themselves, however, seems to cross that proverbial line and interfere in a rather cumbersome way with the development of a focused academic program...
...being shoe-horned immediately into a particular discipline. As Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby told The Crimson last week, “If you have to declare your concentration in the spring of your freshman year, you basically have one semester of unfettered choice and even that semester??s not entirely unfettered.” Kirby is entirely correct. A system which requires incoming students to have such a specific direction from the moment they arrive at college fatally undermines any claim that Harvard encourages broad academic exploration...
...class) now a shadow of their former shiny selves, not even fit to serve as breakfast for a particuarly voracious dog. Syllabi which once augured mastery of entirely new realms of knowledge now seem nothing but silent yet brutally-insistent task masters, as the prospect of covering an entire semester??s worth of dense readings looms ahead even as promising topics for research papers must be formulated...
...have to declare your concentration in the spring of your freshman year, you basically have one semester of unfettered choice and even that semester??s not entirely unfettered,” Kirby says. “[What] I hope will emerge...is a curriculum in which students can explore deeply not just one, but several areas, and change their minds about what they are interested in doing...
...cast also includes seasoned Harvard theater community members, including Geordie F. Broadwater ’04, who directed last semester??s Mainstage show, Temptation, and Bobby A. Hodgson ’05, the current president of the HRDC...