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...Plato believed that education was not a process of acquiring new knowledge, but of the soul remembering and recollecting the Good that it once knew. The task of education was, as he put it, to give the soul “the right surrounding” of love to re-approach the Good. The House system has have the potential to provide the surrounding in which the soul can flourish at Harvard, and I will always be grateful for the memories with which it has provided and armed mine...
...time, Paul C. Martin ’52, then Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences and chairman of the Task Force on Concentrations that proposed the expansion of Social Studies, told The Crimson, “If the application decrease is due to the loss of Social Studies’ ‘elite’ status, it’s all for the better...
...blazing the trail for such alliances is no easy task. Reeve says that the extent of the interdisciplinary collaboration that goes on through the institute is unique not only to Harvard, but also with regard to other institutions across the country...
...general education curriculum has led to an examination of the place of undergraduates in the study of religion at Harvard. The category came under heavy criticism from some professors such as Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker after it was proposed in October, and the general education task force scrapped the category two months later, arguing that religion courses could be “readily accommodated in other categories...
...wrong: Sneed likes animals as much as the next guy. But making provisions for the evacuation of pets, now mandated under state and federal law, adds one more layer of complexity to the already difficult task of getting people out of harm's way if a hurricane threatens Southeast Louisiana this year...