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While we did give up some things over the past 18 months, Harvard remains an environment of unique depth and breadth. For instance, in FAS we offer instruction in more than 70 ancient and modern languages, far more than any other American university. No language programs were eliminated because of the financial crisis. In fact, we moved forward; this year we launched new “bridge” courses that integrate language instruction (such as Arabic and Chinese) into literature and other content instruction...
Students saw the breadth of the concentration as a distinct advantage. “It was great, broad, and it meant that I didn’t have to narrow myself,” Charles A. Stevenson ’63 said. Stevenson, a member of Wolff’s first tutorial, returned to co-teach Social Studies’ international relations junior tutorial from 1968 to 1970. “It kept more options open longer. My mind got stretched by my sophomore tutorial more than any other experience at Harvard...
...solutions often demand openness to the approaches and lessons learned from seemingly disparate fields. To focus one’s intellectual passion is clearly worthwhile, but to do so with blinders on is to risk a narrowness of perspective that becomes limiting later on. It is this appreciation of breadth and the intellectual flexibility that comes with it that first attracted me to a liberal-arts education—first as a student and then as a faculty member. Today, the teaching of science in a liberal-arts setting is a continued source of excitement and inspiration...
...What Harvard brings to the table is the unique ability to leverage the breadth, scope and strength of the University to establish a ‘field of global health,’” HSPH Dean Julio Frenk wrote in the Institute’s annual report...
...often than not lead him to a kind of melancholy. In “Apes,” he wonders, “Could I have passed through my own golden age and not even known I was there?” What is more, Williams acknowledges the wide breadth of his literary knowledge, but also hints that such erudition is not necessarily satisfying or comforting. In the same poem, he writes, “It occurred to me I’ve read enough; at my age all I’m doing is confirming my sadness...