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While most high school students are assigned a list of books to read over the summer, undergraduates aren't required to do much at all during the summer months. Just in case you've been using the excuse of "But I don't know what to read!" to avoid any and all intellectual engagement, we here at Flyby asked some of Harvard's brightest minds for summer reading recommendations. Here's what they suggested...
Undergraduate summers are the time for serious reading. I would urge students to read as much as they can of Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, still the greatest work of historical writing in English. The combination of erudition and irony is exquisite. It is also an invaluable guide to the symptoms of imperial decline, which could come in handy in the years ahead...
...choice is Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. For those many undergraduates who have read it already, read it again. It is the richest novel and bears numerous re-readings. For those who haven't read it yet, get a copy, and enjoy...
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...fair reading model, Souter noted, fails because the Constitution must be “read as a whole, and when it is, other values crop up in potential conflict with an unfettered right to publish, the value of security for the nation and the value of the President’s authority in matters foreign and military...