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...luckily for Breck, Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences had just approved a Program of Special Standing, giving qualified students the option to skip freshman year and enroll in the College as sophomores. Breck was chosen to be the first guinea...
...sugar or saturated fats. Don't skip meals or eat after 8 p.m. Don't let saboteurs jealously tell you, "You look too thin...
...century Frenchman, however, spent years as a lawyer before openly pursuing his epicurean calling. It's a trajectory scores of Americans have traveled in recent years as they abandoned the corporate world and sought greater happiness at cooking academies. But if Brillat-Savarin were around today, he would probably skip the law and head straight to the kitchen. The fastest-growing population in the nation's cooking schools is young people who refuse to do time as lawyers, orthopedists or even traditional college students but instead proceed directly from high school into culinary academies. In 1997, only 22% of applicants...
...passed, students are now more aware of their right to waive paying it. Couple this new awareness with generally negative feelings about paying a new, higher fee, and the council could theoretically lose money next year. Free-riding will inevitably be an issue as well; we doubt students will skip a U2 concert just because they conveniently checked...
...future, at least students will know which classes are thought by the Harvard faculty to contain important texts, not just to introduce important methods of thought. It is, to my mind, a shame that through arrogance or indolence some students may choose to skip those courses. But their very existence will be a major step forward for undergraduate education as a whole. Regardless of whether you think Harvard students need more flexibility or less, these proposals to replace the Core should be cautiously welcomed. Little Ricky spotted it in 1978 and undergraduates, alas, still recognize it today?...