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...council took Harvard to task on more than just landscaping during yesterday’s meeting...
...Core Curriculum, the Task Force’s thinking goes, focuses too strongly on “ways of knowing” and too little on actual knowledge. So far so good; there is undoubtedly a certain breadth and depth of knowledge that every graduate ought to have...
...points and 339 offensive yards, including 104 on the ground. The Tigers’ century mark was the first allowed by the Crimson “D” all season.With a new weekend and a noticeably weaker offense in the Big Green, Saturday’s task was about more than just performing: the defense had to dominate. Harvard responded by posting its first shutout of the season, and first since a 38-0 whipping of Columbia in 2004. “Every week, that’s our goal,” senior defensive tackle Mike Berg said...
...Task Force on General Education afraid of teaching religion? True, their report did recommend a reason and faith requirement, but the committee has clearly shied away from teaching religious principles and has treated the study of religion itself with contempt. Religion is not the focus of the reason and faith requirement, but rather a lens through which to view the modern world. For example, the general education report recommends classes such as “Religion and Democracy,” “Religion and Science,” and “Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion in Modern...
Undergraduate Council (UC) representatives questioned committee chairs of the Preliminary Report of the Task Force on General Education in a town hall meeting last night, focusing on proposed approaches to science and math. Bass Professor of English Louis Menand and Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons spoke to a group of 50 students that weren’t limited to UC members in Harvard Hall. Calling the core “old-fashioned,” Menand said that the current system fragmented knowledge into specific academic disciplines more suitable for the ivory tower than the outside world...