Word: tait
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...Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...
...History 10a, primary sources are only a second thought, a decoration added to the textbook and lectures. Aidan E. Tait ’08, who took the course her freshman year (and who is also a Crimson editor), says that despite reading great works in History 10a, “We never managed to tie anything together or to relate the readings to the textbook or lectures at all. We never really grappled with the texts, and we never contextualized them.” Such a superficial, textbook-based narrative is not representative of the offerings of the History Department...
Unbeknownst to the History Department, this lone course is probably the single most influential reason why undergraduates choose to concentrate in the “neighboring” fields of History and Literature or Social Studies instead of in History. Tait chose the History and Literature concentration because of her discouragement with the superficiality of History...
...Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Aidan E. Tait can be reached at atait@fas.harvard.edu...