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...Standing Committee on General Education will play a crucial role. Nevertheless, we believe that enforcing strict administrative requirements for such courses, such as mandating a final or midterm, would be a grave mistake. Furthermore, the Faculty must make it clear that the Committee should create strict guidelines on subject matter and pedagogy for the first tier of “General Education” courses. Our hope is that these courses, modeled on this year’s new humanities courses, will be so exciting and of such high quality that students will flock to them. The faculty should, however...
...than four hours. Junior and senior Quincyites, many of whom live in the House’s newer and larger building, and the resident tutors received an e-mail from Assistant to the Master Larry J. Peterson shortly before 6 p.m. on Feb. 8. The e-mail, with the subject line “URGENT,” announced “major pipe back-up problems” and urged residents not to “flush your toilet until it is announced otherwise.” According to Quincy House Building Manager Ronald W. Levesque, a blockage...
...subject of her predecessor, Faust said that of all of former University President Lawrence H. Summers’ qualities, the one she wished she could emulate most were his “sharp analytic skills...
Indeed, Radcliffe dwells in its own little world of peripheral curiosities, its spat of fellows united only by their obsessive imposition of oftentimes-anachronistic “gendered” perspectives on their subject fields. Unlike many of the professional schools over which Faust will soon preside, the Radcliffe Institute is not on the cutting edge of scholarship or research...
After all, for an international with no background in U.S. history, taking a general survey course on the subject would prove far more useful in understanding modern America than the more specific history core offerings, such as Historical Study B-34. “The World in 1776” or Historical Study B-40, “Pursuits of Happiness: Ordinary Lives in Revolutionary America.” If international students are not familiar with the basic events and people of the American Revolution, then how are they expected to appreciate classes as narrow in scope as these? Without...