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...Harvard kicks off its first curricular review in three decades, there is great news at hand. In spite of complaints from a number of sulky students and a few unenthused faculty members, the Core Curriculum continues to flourish. Indeed, the Core forms the heart of the liberal arts education for all students at this elite Ivy League college—and looks set to do so for many years to come...
Unfortunately, the college is Columbia and their Core resembles Harvard’s only vaguely more than it does an apple’s. Although, with any luck, after several years of investigation and deliberation, Harvard will again possess a Columbia-style Core which forces students to grapple with the many of history’s greatest literary and philosophical works...
Speaking last October at his installation ceremony, University President Lawrence H. Summers seemed in no doubt about the shortcomings of Harvard’s Core. “[Harvard is a] University, where few would admit—and none would admit proudly—to not having read any plays by Shakespeare or to not knowing the meaning of the categorical imperative, but where it is all too common and all too acceptable not to know a gene from a chromosome or the meaning of exponential growth.” Unfortunately, as Summers may now know after a year...
...think that the demonstrations caused people to choose more diverse careers. They became much more aware of the world. Many went into journalism and public service instead of business or medicine. I think our class is sometimes seen as apathetic because we don’t have those core groups of businessmen for fundraising...
...from Wellesley or Singapore—come to Harvard for a maximum of two terms. The visiting student program is not unique to Harvard; Yale and Columbia both offer options for study to non-degree candidates. But within Harvard itself, it offers a unique academic and social experience: no Core or concentration requirements, an academic program that usually features extensive cross-registration at Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) and a semester or year of immersion in Harvard’s social idiosyncrasies. In fact, since most international visiting students have either studied or lived...