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...Committee on General Education. It is original, thoughtful, and well-written, and reflects considerable work on the part of our colleagues on the Task Force on General Education. The entire Harvard community should be grateful for the progress they have made and the issues they have asked us to address. I have two reservations, however. The final report will attract wide attention in academia and in the press, where it will be read not for its specific recommendations, but as a once-in-a-generation statement on the nature of higher education from the world’s most prominent...
That similarity is striking because both Brooks and Ogletree quote Du Bois out of order. In his 1905 Niagara Movement address, Du Bois mentioned free speech first, education sixth, “manhood suffrage” third, and “caste distinctions” fourth...
...wish to articulate the exact challenges that Harvard’s next president must address. In a series of editorials, under the banner of “The Search for a President,” we will focus—as we believe you should—on the concrete issues that the next president will have to address...
...initiatives that have begun to address these shortcomings haven’t been cheap—and more will be needed to make further progress. Harvard’s president must compel the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to spend its precious dollars on priorities that the Faculty itself might not share. (In addition, the president must be willing to spend his or her own discretionary funding on undergraduates, as Summers did on several occasions.) Conversely, FAS’ bleak financial outlook must not justify an attempt to cut existing programs, let alone hamper new ones?...
...thanked the sergeant and moved on. He certainly meant well. But the truth is my new address is much more likely to be bombed. This morning as I woke up, the sound of an explosion reached my bedroom window, which is mostly covered by a stack of sandbags to guard against blasts. Then another. I'm told that's normal, just the sound of morning rush hour around here...