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...think it of very great importance," wrote Gouverneur Morris to George Washington in 1790, advising him on how to furnish the presidential mansion, "to fix the taste of our country properly...everything about you should be substantially good and majestically plain, made to endure." Modern Americans are taught to love luxury, to think of it as a reward for success. Those of the late 18th century were more apt to distrust it as a vice. They associated it with frivolity, decadence--colonial rule. Virtue showed itself in plainness, explicitness, pragmatism, "making do," an unfussed directness of craftsmanship. There...
Other reforms, which are expected not to pass, include ending Core class exemptions for AP test scores, adding prerequisites for certain Core classes and creating as many small, professor-taught classes as resources allow...
Students had mixed reactions to the proposal for more small classes taught by professors...
...need a higher-quality education which would be provided by smaller faculty-taught classes," said Alper Afya '00. "I don't want Harvard to be number three again...
David Layzer is the Menzel Professor of Astrophysics. He has taught in the Core program and its predecessor, the General Education program, for more than 25 years...