Word: soule
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...other student-right groups fight their battle for the soul of the campus--and as liberal students respond--that balance gets harder to strike. But the next time you think your kid is leaving home to get a liberal education, think again...
...Faculty. The selection of essays has varied slightly from year to year, but the one mainstay has been Emerson’s “Self-Reliance.”I thought of that essay the other day when I happened upon “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” by former Dean of the College and current professor Harry R. Lewis ’68. Lewis’ criticisms run the gamut, but the one that caught my eye was his description of student extracurricular involvement. With more than 300 student...
...voice inside rapidly began rehearsing a litany of soul-searching Carrie Bradshaw-like questions about the intended and unintended consequences of our collective curricular efforts. Is it true, as President Lowell once famously declared, that Harvard freshmen “bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years”? Do we, as faculty, perceive the “spark of creativity” in the students who arrive here, then proceed to “water” it, as he is reputed to have declared at Commencement? Is education...
...doesn’t make the same mistakes again.Harry R. Lewis ’68 is Gordon McKay professor of Computer Science and Harvard College professor. He was dean of Harvard College from 1995 to 2003. He is the author of “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education...
...this a question asked by those consumed with a vision—one doubtless seen in every generation—of a lost “golden age” of Harvard, when Giants roamed the faculty landscape; when Tradition was honored; when, we are told, the place had Soul; when, in short, Harvard was Harvard...