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Executive education courses are intensive--students spend an average of four hours in the classroom and perhaps eight more doing homework and reading every day. Classes are taught by HBS faculty...
David Harlan wrote that American historians used to write "morally instructive histories-histories that taught us to speak in the first-person plural." As George Will noted in a column last year, these histories were usually about "the greatness of great men and the nobility of American ideals." He continued, "Those were the sort of writings that moved Martin Luther King Jr. to say that reading history made him feel 'eternally in the red,' that is, with an un-payable debt to those whose lives are imperishable examples of worthy aspirations." The current academic climate, though, of showing the United...
...night"), McInerney rebuts the accusation that his life-style has hurt his prose. "There are a lot of people writing about quiet contemplative lives in the Midwest, a lot of people writing about academia and plenty of people writing about the suburbs," he says. "If I taught college in the Midwest, would I be a better writer? Would the world be a better place? I don't think so. Somebody's got to do what I do. It might as well be me." Continuing to complain about his fame, he adds, "I wish it could be like...
Literature and Arts C-14, "The Concept of Heroin Greek Civilization" taught by Gregory Nagy,Jones Professor of classical Greek literatureranked seventh this year. Nagy's course has risenthe most in attendance this year, from 254students last year to 344 this year...
...size of the College's eighth largest class,General Education 105, "The Literature of SocialReflection," has increased more than 30 percent to307 students. The course is taught by AgeeProfessor of Social Ethics Robert Coles...