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Administered to over 14,000 freshmen and seniors at 50 schools, the survey gauged “civic literacy” through 60 multiple-choice questions. Among other things, it quizzed students about the Puritans, the Constitution, and why “free markets typically secure more economic prosperity than government’s centralized planning...
...average, seniors nationwide answered about 54 percent of the questions correctly. Harvard seniors scored an average of 70 percent—almost 6 percent higher than freshmen here...
...freshmen will soon discover, few types on the Harvard campus arouse such universal ire as “that kid” in your humanities section. He crowds out other discussion with big, overreaching generalizations. He challenges the TF whenever possible. His vocabulary is expansive, but he is given to the occasional malapropism. Everyone despises him, but he is intelligent enough that no one can dismiss him out of hand. (It should be noted that he can also be a she.) For the first few meetings of a section, a single domineering, pretentious personality can positively ruin discussion. But then...
...first Fall Concentration Fair yesterday, students munched on ice cream sandwiches and listened to academic advice in Tercentenary Theatre. Organized by the Advising Programs Office (APO), the fair was directed toward freshmen and sophomores, but the sunny weather and abundant food drew scores of upperclassmen as well. Representatives from each of the 44 concentrations and academic resources such as the Bureau of Study Counsel manned tables to answer questions. Although many of the attendees had questions about specific classes, Manuel J. Antunes ’11 went to the fair to get an overview of Harvard’s opportunities...
...afforded themselves vacations in lieu of taking even baby steps in the march to implement the new curriculum. Reinvigorating Harvard’s Core will require a Herculean effort, and sloth is not an option. This delay in curricular development has already had consequences for the newest crop of freshmen. When the Class of 2011 arrived on campus, their revamped advising system contained hardly a mention of Gen Ed, but many a mention of the Core. “We were taught to act as if there is no such thing as Gen Ed,” says Mohamad...