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...program off the ground—seem apathetic. And the committee that will decide the critical details of implementation and transition has yet to even convene. In fact, its first meeting is tomorrow. In other words, after four critical months, not one iota of progress is apparent. Though summer is a time for rejuvenation, it is not an excuse for stagnation. Students are expected to scan the course catalog and plan for their upcoming semester during their time off. So it is shameful to see that the administrators in charge of pushing General Education afforded themselves vacations in lieu...
There is an incredible worth to international education and experience that cannot be found or generated in Harvard Yard. That Harvard now offers a wealth of popular summer programs does indeed testify to the growing legitimacy of studying abroad at Harvard, but that students would prefer five weeks in Spain to 25 remains befuddling and, on some level, sad. Imagine truncating the Harvard semester after five weeks during the first two months of freshman year. These accelerated and often isolated programs bring a Harvard mentality to a radically different place. We cannot bring Harvard to Bombay, Barcelona or Buenos Aires...
...months to fully grasp the public transportation system in Buenos Aires. Even after five months, I still found myself susceptible to the city’s secrets and idiosyncrasies—secrets that do not reveal themselves in the intensive language classes and all-day curriculum of Harvard Summer School programs. The notion that one can experience a city and a culture in five whirlwind weeks of language classes and “cultural” outings is a prototypical Harvard mentality, akin to us writing 20-page papers in one night and squeezing in meals and gym time between...
State health officials have discovered West Nile Virus in Cambridge mosquito populations, and yesterday announced that two new human cases have been identified in Massachusetts. Three cases of human West Nile Virus had been found in Massachusetts earlier in the summer, but the new cases differed in that state health officials believe the residents—one from Arlington, the other from Worchester—contracted the disease in Massachusetts. Despite the recent cases, and the discovery earlier this month of infected mosquito populations just north of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the University’s West Nile Virus Task Force...
...intellectual suicide. He tried to phrase it in Graham's own terms: "You cannot disobey Christ's great commandment to love God with all thy heart and all thy soul and all thy mind." They continued to debate all year whenever their paths crossed, until finally in the summer of 1949, as Graham was preparing for what would be his breakout crusade in Los Angeles, Templeton confronted him one more time. "Billy, you're 50 years out of date," he said. "People no longer accept the Bible as being inspired the way you do. Your faith is too simple...