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...sure as recalcitrant professors might try to stop the tide from turning, they were treated to the most palatable new vision for undergraduate education to date at last week’s Faculty meeting. Deliberately and thoroughly crafted over the last six months by an elite and semi-secret so-called Task Force on General Education, the proposed new requirements will surely revolutionize the way that oversubscribed, underwhelming Core courses are labelled and described in the course catalogue. I don’t know about you, but I’m excited...
Over the next 30 years, four more presidents—all English-born clergy—would keep Harvard afloat. While conservative by today’s standards, Harvard was already being influenced by more liberalizing forces. Not everyone, however, was willing to be pushed with the tide...
...your life like someone writing down an account of daily expenditures. Why? Because you have something to hide!'' That night I had a nightmare, the first of many: I was on the narrow ledge of a sheer rocky cliff by the sea. The roaring waves of the incoming tide were rising to engulf me. It was pitch dark, I was utterly alone, and I was petrified...
...final period to ensure Harvard emerged from the back-and-forth affair on top. After Cornell had come all the way back from 41-27 down to take a 44-43 advantage with 11:15 to play, Harris scored six straight Crimson points to stem the Big Red tide. The last of those came via an emphatic two-handed dunk on a breakaway, after Harris had helped force a turnover on the other end. The stuff re-tied the score at 49 apiece and helped fire up the unusually raucous fans in Harvard’s student section. Those fans...
...past few weeks, the Democrats have gone wild. The mushy domestic agenda is quickly disappearing beneath a tide of antiwar agitation in Congress. Joe Biden is leading the way, seeking to have as one of the first acts of the new Democratic Senate a nonbinding resolution condemning a troop increase in Iraq. Others want action, not just words. On the presidential side of the party, Hillary Clinton has gone at breakneck speed from being a mild critic of the war to calling for a legislated troop cap and threatening to cut off funds for the Iraqi army. Obama and John...