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Harvard’s first president born west of the Mississippi River—and the first modern Harvard president with previous experience at the helm of an institution of higher learning??Pusey was a devout Episcopalian with strong moral principles...
...proceeding with the next phase of its “distance learning?? project, the OpenCourseWare (OCW) Initiative and if the $100 million, 10-year plan is successful, lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists and assignments for all of MIT’s courses will be accessible on-line at no cost...
...than learning. In a recent op-ed piece, Trevor S. Cox ’01-’02 asserted a link between “a Harvard education and the progress of social justice,” calling on Harvard to expand opportunities for “service learning??—presumably at the expense of the non-service learning that currently constitutes the bulk of the school’s activities...
...Mather, if they do their reading at all. But all of us take our classes amid red brick buildings with crisp white trim, fountains, statues and lavish green lawns. This grandeur is not solely designed to impress potential donors. Rather, the loveliness of the campus mingles with and enhances learning??the reason that critic David Denby has argued that beautiful surroundings are vitally important for education. The columns of Widener bespeak a reverence for the books within; the gleaming tower of Memorial Hall is as eloquent a statement of the University’s values as any Commencement...
...people who might not otherwise have access to education. This is an unquestionable good, but it is no substitute for the real thing. The distance deprives the learning of part of its intangible essence: history, beauty, continuity, the reassuring fastness of centuries-old bricks. “Distance learning?? may be an inevitable part of the future, but the keepers of this great old college must safeguard our ties to the past, our beautiful walls of ghosts...