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...last official acts of the deanship for Kirby, who was charged with spearheading the curricular review after taking office in 2002.One year after the Committee on General Education released its report on the future of general education at Harvard, not a single recommendation has been voted upon by the Faculty.The current proposal requires that students take three courses in each of three areas—Arts and Humanities, Study of Societies, and Science and Technology—and proposes the creation of optional interdisciplinary general education courses that many faculty members say have yet to be clearly defined.The new summer...
...three famous women leaders—Abigail Adams, Phillis Wheatley, and Lucy Stone—all cast in bronze. But the women are not free-standing sculptures; rather, their delicate bodies, obscured in part by drapery, are supported by large, sturdy, geometric blocks of granite. Although my first thought upon viewing the sculpture was that it emphasized these women’s weaknesses, with time, I came to realize that it too emphasized the lesson that leadership was not about standing above, but standing with. Fortunately, during my time as Crimson president, I had more inspiring—and mobile?...
...considerable cultural change at Harvard. After years in which the conventional wisdom was that a semester spent away from Harvard was a lost semester, students have begun studying abroad in record numbers. Summers also helped establish a Chilean office of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and upon his recent visit to India, indicated that a similar initiative will soon be underway in Mumbai.Summers combined his astute sense for today’s big ideas with an unprecedented dedication to undergraduate education. He suggested in his inaugural address that students at the College were being shortchanged, recalling...
...take away the pain of a funeral or the thrill of a kiss, but it robs us of our authenticity; how many of our actions, consciously or not, are based on what we’ve seen done before? Proust can insist “not only upon suffering, but upon respecting the originality of my suffering,” but that perspective vanishes beneath the weight of life previewed. Of course, we aren’t the first generation to grow up with movies and television. This effect existed before, but it is a matter of degree; our simulation...
...moment, Summers’ reputation for “straight talk” failed him, and the selectiveness of his respect for truth, scholarly integrity, and equal justice became exquisitely self-evident.The university is the one place in U.S. society intended to guarantee the freedom to state the truth based upon evidence, logic, and self-scrutiny. Here, no bully can batter us, no political action committee can bribe us, and no boss can fire us for expressing a contrary opinion. The truths that we infer are subject to no test of patriotism or loyalty. Without such freedom of expression, we risk...