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...Cantabrigian branch of the Grand Old Party mostly expresses itself via a twice-monthly column, “The Right View,” published in the Cambridge Chronicle. Members and friends of the Republican City Committee take turns writing the articles, which focus on issues like taxes, school curricula, and the performance of the current city government...
...relation between judicial and legislative powers. The questions Socrates posed, which Plato recorded in his dialogues, remain debated still today, and even the most quantitative of political science still owes its very terminology and subject of analysis to classical political philosophy.The presence of Latin and Greek in college core curricula, however, does privilege eminently Western ideas and works. While such a thought might send shivers down the spine of the most committed post-colonial literary theorist, this Western-centric ideal should not be a cause of concern.To put putatively “Western” learning, like classical languages...
...plaintive sentiment echoes with only too much resonance in the heart of the conservative on campus. How beautiful is this house of learning—the idyllic ivied quads, the scholarly seriousness, the august history of a three-century-old institution. But it has since been despoiled. Traditions usurped, curricula disemboweled, and the noble goal of all intellectual endeavors—the pursuit of truth—unceremoniously renounced. The Ark has been carried away and reposed in Babylon...
...confidence in the brand new program. Attempts to ease the transitional burden further highlight the lack of a substantive difference between the two programs. When every Gen Ed course either counts for Core credit or is a literal recasting of a former Core course, it becomes clear that both curricula are so watered-down that tangible and substantive differences between the two are difficult to find. As such, the original ideal of Gen Ed as a breath of fresh air to replace the detached and defunct Core has been completely violated. The fact that the Advising Programs Office has jokingly...
...itself—or better yet, themselves. At Harvard, the answer is still “no.” Harvard can take pride in its status as a progressive university when it begins to treat non-Western nations just as Western countries are treated in the formation of curricula in fields such as history, literature, and social studies...