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...Harvard teaches students but does not make them wise,” he wrote. “They may achieve extraordinary excellence in both academic and extracurricular endeavors, but the whole educational experience does not cohere.” The article, adapted from a part of the conclusion to Lewis?? upcoming book, “Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education,” is the first and only excerpt that will be published from the book before its May 15 release, Lewis said in an interview yesterday. According to Lewis?? article...
...Former administrators who were at Harvard during Lewis?? tenure offered different pictures of how much emphasis his administration placed on data...
...athletes to win their events. The former led a sweep of the top three spots in the weight throw with a toss of 16.00 meters, while the latter won the 3000 meter run with a time of 8:51.34. The other bright spots during the day were sophomore Alex Lewis?? second-place finish in the long jump and classmate Christopher Green’s similar finish in the 800-meter run. The Crimson women swept the top two spots in the pole vault and the 60 meter hurdles, with sophomore Clara Blattler’s clearance...
Among all of the harping about Lewis?? work, perhaps the most unsound is the tendency to utilize J. R. R. Tolkien’s muted disapproval of the work—“It really won’t do, you know!”—as “proof” that Lewis is all wrong. Tolkien was, of course, a devout and serious Christian believer who succeeded in converting Lewis from militant atheism. Somehow, critics imply, this should mean that Lewis?? work is sub par or meaningless. Why Tolkien?...
This is not to say that Lewis?? work is flawless or that the theology of “Narnia” is particularly persuasive. There are serious problems in confusing the Biblical Jesus with Aslan the lion, and evil in the real world is never personified as clearly as it is in the White Witch and her coterie of demons and beasts. Lewis did not, however, write the “Chronicles” to be a finely tuned theological treatise; he wrote it as a children’s story. If one tries to read...