Word: academicization
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History is certainly a worthy course of study. Harvard boasts numerous courses devoted to studying the world’s histories, and when it examines its own individual history, it is equally valuable as an academic effort, even if that story is a troubled one. A four-person research seminar...
Everyone has done it: you’re sitting at your computer, plugging away at a response paper for that Lit & Arts core, when you catch yourself forgetting to capitalize, omitting punctuation, using abbreviations—and even, god forbid, emoticons. While you brush it off as a result of...
Yet, the final report—much watered down from its initial drafts—enjoyed a lukewarm reception. It lacked the strong commitment to and enthusiasm for a coherent philosophy, and in the interim year and a half, whatever excitement there once was has dissipated. The Faculty has consistently...
Considering the College is in the throes of a curricular transition, however, these efforts to get professors to proactively apply for Core credit have proved inadequate. Students should be given more options, rather than feel limited to the narrowing constraints of a failing program. It is especially disconcerting that only...
But his passion for grassroots change remained distinct from his academic career: after graduating, Rahn enrolled at the California Institute of Technology to pursue a doctorate in theoretical physics. DeBergalis stayed on for an extra year at what he calls his “really good trade school,â?...