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...recent article by Daniel Wenger (“The Rhodes and Harvard: Opportunity, Not Obligation,” op-ed, Mar. 16) discussed the complaints of two Harvard Rhodes Scholars. As someone who has taught at Oxford as a visiting professor twice in the past three years (and will again next year), I have to admit that some of the criticisms the students make about Oxford are accurate. If one is in a hurry to advance to a graduate degree, Oxford may not be the best choice. But that is not what the Rhodes experience should be about. Oxford, however...

Author: By Joseph S. Nye, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Purpose af an Oxford Education | 3/23/2007 | See Source »

...playground equipment of the kind you'd see pretty much anywhere in the West - slides, a plastic jungle gym, spring-loaded hobby-horses shaped like ducks and rabbits. The children's dormitories are further to the left of the garden. Further back are classrooms where the younger children are taught. Kids who reach school age ride bicycles to local schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Visit to Pax's Orphanage | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...successful class teaching the Bible as an academic subject hardly guarantees that it will work every time or everywhere. But Kendrick shows that it can work. "Bad courses will be taught," predicts Prothero, sitting in his B.U. office with the inscription Sans Dieu Rien--Without God, Nothing--carved above the fireplace. (True to his nonsectarian position, he calls its presence "a coincidence. This used to be a private house.") "People will teach it as a Sunday-school class. And we'll do what we always do when unconstitutional stuff happens in America. We'll get a court to tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Case for Teaching The Bible | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

...auditing “The Politics and Ethics of the Use of Force,” taught by [Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life J.] Bryan Hehir. It teaches lessons that cross all sorts of boundaries...

Author: By Jun Li, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Damian Woetzel | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...just a really large casserole.Later, he texted to let me know he was spending time in the States, perhaps visiting relatives. “ALI: fw: Sat. Aug. 13th-Inviting to Allah-Dawah workshop.” I researched. The workshop, held at an Islamic institute near San Francisco, taught persons of other faiths about Islam. My mother appreciated that gesture, Ali, to be sure. A few days later, he texted to remind me: “fw: This weekend’s activities at Zaytuna.” Around our first anniversary, last year, the novelty wore...

Author: By Annie M. Lowrey, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: My Kind-Of Imaginary Syrian Boyfriend | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

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