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...students who enrolled in History 10a last year, 93 of them chose to take it to fulfill a Core requirement or as an elective. This alone should merit the continued staffing of the course; when one considers the vital importance of providing history concentrators themselves with this basic knowledge the case is even more compelling. History 10a serves students in a way that narrowly focused history courses cannot. Despite the inclinations of some in the academy, there is merit to teaching courses that have not sprung forth from doctoral dissertations or that will not result in senior theses. Not every...
...sanatorium's gardens or at the nearby beach. Naturally, at these prices you'll have to jettison some preconceptions. At Aurora, there are no teakwood salas staffed by smiling, sarong-clad maidens bearing ginger tea. Instead, the babushkas who greet you will show the way to clean but basic accommodation that still has the faint whiff of an institution hanging over it, despite a recent face-lift. The solution is to lie back and think of the bragging potential - your friends may have done chakra balancing in Bhutan, or chromotherapy in Bali, but Kyrgyzstan? If there's any other dissonant...
...complex, interweaving demands of exploring Harvard for the first time. Those who argue that freshmen advising is too complex or too large a task to saddle upon those currently involved in planning study breaks, either underestimate the capabilities of eager Harvard students or overestimate the difficulty of providing basic directional advice—explaining the difference between Ec1010 and Ec1011, where to find departmental advising—to freshmen who currently lack it. The training for such a position is expected to be rigorous; it needs to be if the program is to succeed. But upperclassmen have proven themselves receptive...
...Shaggy Dog” is a neo-Disney butchery of a vintage-Disney classic. For the sake of formality, here’s the basic plot: Dave Douglas’ (Allen) new dog bites him, and through the miracles of pseudo-science Douglas periodically turns into a sheepdog. Oh yeah, and this whole spontaneous metamorphosis thing has put the kibosh on his familial relationships, but it’s all too shallow to be interesting...
...Harvard–one that, though loosely bound together, is built on the very concrete dedication and labor of its students to their craft.Brighde Mullins, a lecturer in English and American Literatures and Languages who teaches English Clr, “Screenwriting Workshop,” suggests that a basic “desire to connect with people” fuels these authors, without professional ambition, to write their scripts.“It’s the language that we speak,” she says of screenwriting.Shana A. Franklin ’06 has always loved movies...