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...improving the Core lies in abandoning once and for all the bogus philosophy that its goal should be to introduce students to “ways of thinking” instead of “bodies of knowledge.” Fortunately, when interviewed, Dean of Undergraduate Education Benedict H. Gross ’71, who will play a central role in the review process, did not seem unduly wedded to that hokum. “It is not that easy to differentiate between teaching students ways of thinking and bodies of knowledge,” he said...
Which brings one swiftly to Morningside Heights, where Columbia’s Core promises to deliver “wide-ranging perspectives on significant ideas and achievements in literature, philosophy, history, music, art, and science.” As a result, all Columbia graduates must have read the literature of, among others, Homer, Dante and Montaigne as well as the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Locke. And, yes, Shakespeare and Kant are also featured. The implicit logic behind Columbia’s list of mandatory texts is that some works are especially worthy of study, either for aesthetic or historical...
...Catalogue puts it, “how the marginal status of [imperial Chinese] women’s literature affected the genres women wrote in and the subjects they could deal with” is clearly no substitute for a comprehensive tackling of the major canonical writers. Many of the Core classes at Harvard would make excellent options for departmental credits. They should not, however, be the centerpieces of a first-rate liberal arts education. The Columbia Core forces their students to emerge as well-read, cultured adults; the Harvard Core also allows students that possibility (if they choose sagely...
Professor Eileen Gillooly, Director of the Core Curriculum at Columbia, characterized today as a “Golden Age” for Columbia’s curriculum, as students and faculty rally behind the study of “books that raise important questions and highlight significant conflicts that have intrigued and puzzled people for a very long time.” With some luck, this semester’s launching of the curricular review at Harvard could kick start a process to refashion the humanities portions of our Core from an intellectual crapshoot into something closer approximating the stimulating...
Brown finished last season sixth in the ECAC standings despite being picked to finish last in the preseason coaches’ poll. Inspired by their strong play and a solid returning core, the prognosticators endowed the Bears with a fourth place predication this year, the highest preseason ranking Brown has ever received. Despite having beaten Brown in two games in the ECAC playoffs, No. 2-ranked and defending ECAC champion Harvard will not overlook this up-and-coming team...