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...controversial proposal by Oberlin College President S. Frederick Starr to offer a three-year bachelor's degree is turning heads in the academic world, but is unlikely to catch on at Harvard anytime soon, students and administrators interviewed here said yesterday...
That's just my point. For all the plusses of a Harvard education, there are some lessons that we have just not learned from small colleges like Oberlin and Williams. Intimate contact with professors is rare. And often, as is the case with these seminars, to put oneself in a situation where that sort of contact is possible, students have to go through hell...
...Boris Yeltsin angrily cited an example of the kind of "exploitation" he would not allow: a middleman who bought meat in Moscow and sold it as shashlik in a city less than a hundred miles away for a big markup. Meeting Yeltsin immediately after, S. Frederick Starr, president of Oberlin College in Ohio and a Sovietologist, suggested that instead of putting the dealer out of action, the Russian leader ought to encourage five more hustlers to go into the business. That way more shashlik would be distributed while competition slashed the price. Yeltsin's face lit up. "Of course...
Another problem is that Soviets lack what Oberlin President Starr terms "horizontal links among citizens," the clubs, professional societies and voluntary associations that in other countries foster the habits of political give-and-take. At the end of the 19th century, Danish historian Georg Brandes called czarist Russia "a bureaucratic state where official power has destroyed all spontaneous and natural growth in the relations of public life." His description would have fit the Communist state even better. Partly in consequence, aspiring leaders have had nowhere to learn the arts of compromise and coalition building indispensable to democratic politics...
Antonia M. Rudenstine, 25, lives in Cambridge and teaches social studies at Quincy High School. After graduating from Oberlin College, where she majored in political science and law and society, Antonia earned her teaching certificate at Harvard's Graduate School of Education...