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...agenda is to talk a lot, to anyone who will listen. I thus thank The Crimson for inviting me to write this piece and to get other people to talking about what the arts should and could mean at Harvard. Traditionally (and there is a sometimes crushing weight of tradition at this place), Harvard has been a liberal-arts college. The arts and athletics (and even the sciences, I’m told, 150 years ago) were avocational activities, not the proper vocation of a gentleman...
...that the result of all this self-study will be to expand and coordinate curricular arts practice at Harvard: to give credit for dance, for instance, or expand credit for instrumental and vocal study and for participation in University musical ensembles, or to encourage students still further to write poetry and make films and do art; or to rationalize the relationship between the University and the American Repertory Theater and the museums in a way that makes them truly pedagogical without robbing them of their artistic integrity. To me, that would only be a ratification of already-evident interest...
...catch me on a bad day and mention Harvard’s housing system to me, and I’m apt to fly into a rage—or at least to write a shrill newspaper column about...
...also dropped her thesis. “I thought then, ‘If I don’t write this thesis, I won’t be successful.’ But no one has every asked me about my GPA or my thesis...
...kinds of pieces I enjoy most are small and essay-like,” he says. “I like to write about stuff that interests me and broaden it out so that it interests others as well...