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The emphasis we place on formal education rests on a belief that someone who is intelligent must be "book-smart" or "well-read." Especially at Harvard, we stress that an intelligent person needs to know such information as who Kierkegaard was, what Tolstoy wrote and why the Boer War was...
"The main emphasis is on mental preparation," Collins agrees. "One girl's physical training consisted of quitting smoking."
WE are all familiar with the Greco-Roman ideal--mens sana in corpore sano--of fitness in both mind and body. Harvard, as an institution of academic excellence, however, sometimes seems to place undue emphasis on the body part instead of the mind.
My suggestion is to add an extra element to the campaign: in each of, say, six to eight weeks, both candidates would be required to address a single major issue. The topics could include, for example, national security, the economy, the environment and health care. Each week the candidates would...
Many SWAT members said they also fear thatconfusion between the two groups may lead studentsto mistake SWAT's civil rights emphasis for anunpopular liberal agenda.