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...Bring Back the Dead White Men,” Luke Smith ’04 supports a purely Western-based Core Curriculum, arguing that the enlightened perspectives of “dead white men” are effectively universal and sufficient for learning truth. He declares, “Western values include tolerance for many different ethnic and gendered perspectives, which is why women and minority readers will ‘see themselves’ in a Western canon, even if that canon doesn’t include many women and minority authors...
When defining the Core Curriculum, Harvard should consider the worth and necessity of the content students study. Considering the various “non-white” influences which significantly pervade Western thought, this is a lofty task. And it’s all the more reason for such a curriculum to be multifaceted and worldly in nature, so that Harvard students both attain cultural literacy and graduate with a keen understanding of the significance of that literacy...
...acknowledged that once defeated or otherwise retired from politics, one has to fall back on core beliefs to determine a meaningful course of action...
...March is a seminal historic event. In 1934, the more-than-80,000-strong Red Army, having been routed by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, retreated from its base in southeast China on a harrowing yearlong slog that killed 9 out of 10 soldiers?but ultimately, by saving the core cadre to fight another day, set the stage for the Communists' victory, launched a nation and turned a little-known guerilla fighter named Mao Zedong into a hero...
Maybe it was the core of fans, relatives and Harvard alums that inspired the team by braving the cold to support the Crimson in its final regular season game...