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Harvard needs to learn from history and avoid replacing one academic fad with another. The Task Force’s focus on “today??s issues” is just as arbitrary and transient as the “ways of learning” system developed and introduced in 1979. Nothing in the new General Education proposal convinces me that within thirty years another revamping won’t be needed. Instead the College needs to foster a return to liberal arts proper—a place where knowledge is not taught to develop abstract modes...
...have more (or less) control over the three spheres than they necessarily would like. "Scientific Method": Matthew S. Meisel ’07, a chemistry concentrator in Currier House and former editorial chair, hopes he doesn’t need to convince you that global warming is real, despite today??s snowfall. His column will run on alternate Fridays and will demystify the science news of the moment, and perhaps predict exactly when Boston Harbor will be lapping at the steps of Currier. "Unrepentant Old Whig": Piotr Brzezinski ’07 is a social studies concentrator...
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...
...instead of being relegated to a pile on a Committee member’s desk where she can practice using her red “Denied” rubber stamp. The past four months have been a period of intense discussion about what it means to be educated in today??s society, punctuated by skirmishes over the makeup of the distribution areas. We hope that the Faculty avoids provincial squabbling over exactly whose courses will count for General Education credit and focuses on the big picture. With some key adjustments we will have the backbone of a strong...
...Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard has selected an academic indisputably well-qualified by the standards that govern today??s professional scholarship. But the Harvard President occupies a position more prominent than just that of a primer inter pares among the hundreds of professors...