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"I have studied the Harvard catalog, and I agree that under the heading of the Core Curriculum we find an agglomeration of courses, many of them obviously meaty and important, taught by eminent scholars, on a wide variety of subjects," Bennett says.
That's what is hard to take about this book. It is not really about books. The professors come first. Its subtitle, "113 Eminent Harvard Professors Discuss the Books that Have Shaped Their Thinking" is really a more accurate description of the book than the full title.
Consider the internship program. Rather than talk with the people of South Africa, who Harvard was ostensibly trying to help, the University prescribed their own solution to the problem of apartheid. And when students and faculty revealed that the program did not meet the needs of Blacks, Harvard ignored their...
Two of America's most eminent economists took issue with Professor Martin S. Feldstein '61 when he called John Maynard Keynes a "defunct scribbler of years past" at a symposium yesterday.
By the 1960s, however, the National Party had changed the balance of the courts. Overlooking some distinguished but all-too-liberal candidates, the government named less eminent but more sympathetic lawyers to judicial posts. At the same time, the Parliament enacted a number of laws that severely curbed court powers...