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...post-Pear Harbor—world situation that necessitates an understanding of American culture, foreign cultures, and religions. “I think both the Red Book and our report are both kind of efforts to look outside the college to what the world??s like that students will confront,” says Menand. “I think we kind of think of ourselves as going back to the great mother document which was the Red Book.”LEARNING FROM THE EXPERTS Usually the members on education committees at Harvard are experts in their...
...Gates] has taken a field of study that, years ago, was floundering at Harvard and transformed it into the leading department of its kind in this country,” Bok said in a press release yesterday. “He has been one of the world??s intellectual leaders, if not the intellectual leader, in shaping the entire field of African-American studies over the last quarter century,”Hired from Duke University in 1991, Gates has often called Harvard home to the “greatest center for African and African American studies?...
...requisite components of a general education, but undergraduates will necessarily be exposed to different cultures simply by completing the rest of the proposed general education program. It seems inconceivable, for example, for a course to be taught under the proposed “The United States and the World?? category without a component of cultural exploration in one, if not both, of that category’s required courses. The same could be said of courses in both Literature and Arts A and B: It is difficult, if not impossible, to study a creative work without studying...
...sold-out crowd roared with laughter as six stand-up comedians, all performing without pay, helped raise money for Deep Roots—an organization devoted to education in the third world??as part of the Harvard Concert Commission’s (HCC) second annual Comedy for a Cause...
...says senior Nick Downing, the lightweight captain. “He was one of those key guys who stepped up and made a difference that year.”After that victory, Benkreira and his teammates went to Taiwan, where they competed against some of the world??s best teams. At the closing dinner, flags from each institution were placed along the second tier of the banquet hall. “Some guy from Australia with a mohawk went up and grabbed our flag,” recalls senior Dan Kettler, Benkreira’s roommate...