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...internship, in anticipation not only of the remainder of his college eligibility but of taking a shot at a professional career after he graduates, whether it be in Europe or somewhere else.Cusworth does not know where basketball will lead him in the future. His immediate task, however, is much more clear. He has just half a season to wash away the bad taste of last year, when the team’s stellar frontcourt of Cusworth and captain Matt Stehle ’06, the motivating factor behind Harvard’s preseason No. 2 ranking, could not prevent...
...Ninety-nine percent of this document relates to Harvard’s institutional needs, and less than one percent to community concerns," said Brent Whelan ’73, a member of the Allston Community Task Force...
...there are many more whom we have not yet had the chance to hear from.” With Interim President Derek C. Bok and Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles intent on completing the College’s first curricular review in more than 30 years, the Task Force on General Education—headed by Simmons and Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand—convened over the summer and completed its 38-page report this October. In contrast to the current Core Curriculum, which emphasizes approaches to academic inquiry, the proposed...
Today, the Faculty will begin to take on the central and difficult question of what students should know to graduate from Harvard. The Task Force on General Education has produced a serious and thoughtful answer to this question. It has proposed that the College train students for citizenship in a global society and, to that end, require students to take courses in ten diverse areas from reason and faith to analytical reasoning. I fear, however, that the proposal goes too far in rejecting the Core Curriculum’s “approaches to knowledge” in favor...
...Over the past 230 years, the definition of economics has changed from topic to method. While economics was originally defined by the task of running a government and then the understanding of formal markets, the field has come to define itself by a scientific approach to human society. This method starts with formal models of decision-making agents and exposes these models to statistical tests. In that sense, the methodological heart of economics does not distinguish it from any other field that believes in the value of applying the scientific method to mankind...