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...cost, it seems, lies in students’ stress levels and mental health. According to the most recent senior survey conducted by The Harvard Crimson in 2007, 40 percent of students said they had solicited mental health treatment during their college years. This statistic, though daunting, is hardly a surprise, given the number of glassy-eyed students who guzzle energy drinks in Lamont Library night after night during the academic year...
...Class of 2008 in Memorial Church today, Faust focused on the unease that many Harvard students feel in taking lucrative positions in finance or consulting. Thirty-nine percent of seniors who are entering the workforce this year have jobs in one of those fields, according to a Crimson survey released today...
...rather than mechanically transmitting a body of facts—has some merit. Surely these modes are useful. But the great fallacy in the Core as implemented so far is that the two approaches—the “mode of inquiry” and the survey course—are somehow mutually exclusive. They are not, and a well-taught survey course invariably transmits a case study in intellectual approach along with the working knowledge of a field that makes such an approach meaningful. For evidence, Core planners should look to their own most hugely successful Core course...
...three or four men who are writing them, and little attempt is made to divine general undergraduate opinion. Reports could be much better executed under a special student committee chosen by the Masters and Senior Tutors. This committee would include at least one person who has taken a survey methods course, and at the request of the Administration or a few students, would take a scientific survey and write well-planned reports representative of student views. These would be prepared without discussion of censuring clubs, haggling over changes in procedures, and doubt as to its purpose...
...chaotic heap on the floor. As his neighbors cram mattresses and suitcases into cars as they head for the homes of relatives in nearby Reykjavik, Gesson can't say where he plans to go. "I don't know," he says, frustrated, and retreats back inside to survey the damage...