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...about your prof behind his back, bash her anonymously on a blog, but you have to admit it takes balls to attach your name to an article slamming him in a national publication. Ross Douthat ’02 calls out specific Harvard professors in “The Truth About Harvard,” an article in the March Atlantic Monthly that zeroes in on Harvard’s Core courses as inconsequential, calling them “maddeningly specific and often defiantly obscure...
...biggest problem is that these fields have come to almost monopolize the attention of Harvard students, generating a thoroughly anti-academic, anti-intellectual attitude. In a recent article in the Atlantic Monthly called “The Truth About Harvard,” Ross G. Douthat ’02 argues that one of Harvard’s biggest flaws is its failure to provide “a general education, a liberal arts education to future doctors and bankers and lawyers and diplomats.” Douthat has it all backwards. The real failure belongs to the students, many...
...recent piece in The Atlantic Monthly, “The Truth About Harvard,” Douthat reveals that in retrospect, he feels “cheated” by his undergraduate experience at Harvard, and proceeds to bash practically every aspect of academic life—the classes offered, what is expected of the students, the way grades are given—on his way to concluding that Harvard is, as its critics have long suspected, easy. Harvard students are “creatively lazy,” committing their considerable intellect to achieving the highest grades with...
...error, change it! Just follow my second example, instead of my first: Moments after altering Yale’s birthdate, I was overwhelmed with guilt and repaired my own error. A 65 year head start is good enough, I think, so long as it’s the truth...
...Science of Sleep We live in a shortsighted society that sees sleep as an obstacle to productivity [Jan. 24]. But the truth is quite the opposite. A nightly investment in eight hours of rest may lead to even greater accomplishments. The greatest and most imaginative members of society, our children, sleep 10 to 12 hours a night. We should follow their lead. And we certainly shouldn't buy into romanticized notions of how much work we can do without sleep. Lewis J. Kass, M.D. Director Pediatric Sleep Laboratory The Children's Hospital at Montefiore New York City...