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Perhaps this should not come as a surprise. The professors’ essays offered ample food for thought, and many of the 13 student authors clearly relied upon the faculty arguments as starting points...
...suggestion of a “formal introduction to scholarly thought.” Thorpe laments that Harvard excels in churning out technicians in particular concentrations (cough, economics!) who lack a “clear conception of the grounds of debate” upon which their entire field of study rests. He argues that students need to take a course that that seeks to get to the big questions about the purpose of scholarly pursuit. Ultimately, even if such a class focused largely on the Western canon (such as Plato, Smith, and Bacon—as Thorpe suggests), the debate...
Ultimately, students, surrounded with distractions both without and within the university walls, need greater direction from Harvard in order to find our own self-direction. It is reasonable for the University to “impose” more stringent requirements upon us because we ultimately have chosen to come here and accept the challenge. Left to our own, there are too many pressures that can lead us away from confronting our deepest assumptions and developing our minds to the fullest potential...
...years old, Isaac, Taylor and Zac, respectively, are embarking upon their very first independent album tour to bring reinventions of their own music and originals from “Underneath” across the continent...
...false alarms. To a certain extent, we agree that the University’s physical resources departments should do whatever they can to reduce the number of unnecessary alarms, but we recognize that no fire prevention system will ever be devoid of false alarms. Because of this, we call upon the University to focus more on raising student awareness of the perils caused by unresponsiveness toward fire alarms—and upon students themselves to be willing to inconvenience themselves for 15 minutes in exchange for their safety...