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...course’s textbook calls Freud’s influence on the field of psychology "considerable," but adds that "today relatively few psychologists follow Freudian thinking...
Here at Harvard, anti-capitalist convictions are frequently misunderstood as angsty and anti-historical—or worse, the product of misguided privilege guilt. I consider that closed-mindedness self-serving negligence. The economic theory preached at our institution seems a textbook “ruling ideology,” frantically cloaking bourgeois agendas in the alluring rhetoric of rising tides and individual liberties. It’s hardly coincidental, after all, that Ec 10 renders heroic the careers most of us are funneled into upon graduation. The longer we let the wool be pulled over our eyes, the harder...
Tiro (novice) or not, brandishing a sizeable arma lusoria (wooden sword) and aiming strategically at the stomach of his lanista (trainer), my 12-year-old son Theo cuts an impressive swath as a gladiator-in-training. Far more real than reading a textbook about life in classical Rome, taking a two-hour course in the rigors of gladiatorial combat was a brilliant way for an enthusiastic Latin student to get the most from a school-holiday visit to Rome...
Next semester, students may not have to risk being kicked out of the Coop to get the ISBN numbers of their textbooks. In its meeting last week, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) discussed a proposal to create a database, the Harvard College Book Information System, where students could find the ISBN numbers of each book on every course syllabus. We wholeheartedly support such an initiative, which would make it easier for students to comparison-shop online and save money on their books. Although the Coop provides the conveniences of centralization and proximity, its virtual monopoly on ISBN numbers...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education last night debated a proposal to implement a college-wide program to reduce the cost of textbooks to students.According to the proposal submitted by the Undergraduate Council (UC), the system could potentially save students $1.3 million annually. The Harvard Coop and Harvard faculty and students would all have access to this database, which would be called the Harvard College Book Information System.Alyssa Q. Colbert ’10, the committee’s vice-chair, said that the idea behind the new system is to create an online system to provide students with free and easy...