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Usually sagacious, Steven Pinker writes like a philistine about faith and reason (“Less Faith, More Reason,” op-ed, Oct. 27). What is faith? Ill-founded belief, he writes, anathema to the university. What is reason? “Pure and simple...
...editors: Re: “Twice Victimized,” op-ed, Nov. 2: The recent call by the co-directors of Harvard Students for Choice for “limits” on postering by Harvard Right to Life (HRL) only further confirms me in my belief that those who claim to support free expression, except when it is hurtful, quite simply do not get it. The price of living in an open society is that we are liable to find ourselves contradicted, offended, and distressed at every turn. We pay this price because we are aware...
Steven Pinker writes that religion “is an American anachronism, I think, in an era in which the rest of the West is moving beyond it” (“Less Faith, More Reason,” Oct. 27, op-ed). As a consequence, he believes, we should reconsider the “Reason and Faith” requirement in the Report of the Committee on General Education. At best, this statement can be interpreted as hyperbole; looking at census data worldwide, in which religious affiliation is generally self-reported, 16 percent of those surveyed identified themselves...
Although Dudley should not receive as much UC funding as the other houses, it is certainly free to spend its allocation however it chooses. It has proposed hosting block parties in order to improve relations between Co-op residents and their neighbors (who are not Harvard affiliates). Money received by HoCos should be used to build House community, and if Dudley’s conception of House community is neighborhood community, that’s fine. But if Dudley requires more than its fair share of UC funding to build these neighborhood relationships—and the Co-op?...
...perhaps to the tough psychological leap from Bach to Barber or the fact that the tempo was a bit too upbeat, the Barber Adagio was the least successful of the three pieces. Originally written as the second movement of Barber’s String Quartet op. 11, the Adagio is often performed by a full string section rather than just four players, which can muddy the sound and dilute the piece’s emotional impact. Bach Soc did encounter some of these problems by using all of their strings, and only reached a true pianissimo at the poignant...