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This an essay on that concept, particularly on how it has worked and failed at Harvard. It cannot yet be assessed in relation to all American education, though it seems to have a widening impact on schools and colleges in the nation...
...depth of the lower-level Humanities and Social Sciences is one problem. These courses have undeniable impact, for their reading lists are scarcely surpassed in the University and they are usually very well taught. But some people wonder if they do not try to do too much, to read too many books. Except Humanities 6, the lower-level Humanities courses read no fewer than eleven great books in a year, and often quite a few more...
...contact with France's haughty leader at least once a year. But this time it was especially important for the two statesmen to have their leisurely hours together in the French countryside, for Europe is moving into decisive times; bargains made, friendships hardened, grievances dissolved could have an impact on the world's future for decades to come...
...Bonnie Dobson, 21, sounds nearer to Baez than any of the other new folk-girls, although her voice and delivery are lighter and the impact of her performances is different: for Joan's tragic, gypsy quality, Bonnie substitutes a fresh, willowy charm that never deserts her in even the darkest laments. She mixes American and French-Canadian songs, and she has a more antic taste than most of her contemporaries: On the wedding night, When he came to bed with me, He bit me on my shoulder And nearly broke my knee...
...Public Impact. The New York Times combined stock average dropped farther in one week than in any week since Nov. 9, 1929. Of course this was no 1929 again-there are too many safeguards around for that-but Wall Street's news was disquieting nonetheless. Today's stock market is neither the clubby preserve of the rich nor a Monte Carlo for bet-a-million adventurers: it is a national institution into which one U.S. adult in eight has placed part of his savings. So much has been invested in the market by private pension funds ($17 billion...