News
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor Talks Justice, Civic Engagement at Radcliffe Day
News
Church Says It Did Not Authorize ‘People’s Commencement’ Protest After Harvard Graduation Walkout
News
‘Welcome to the Battlefield’: Maria Ressa Talks Tech, Fascism in Harvard Commencement Address
Multimedia
In Photos: Harvard’s 373rd Commencement Exercises
News
Rabbi Zarchi Confronted Maria Ressa, Walked Off Stage Over Her Harvard Commencement Speech
The experiment that is being tried out at Harvard just now has called forth widespread comment, all of which has been laudatory. A reading period is being held for the two and a half weeks preceding midyears. During this time books selected by the professors and supplied by the library are being read, and a knowledge of their contents is to be required for the examinations. There are of course no lectures. Miss Ada Comstock, head of Radcliffe, said in an article appearing in the college daily that if this experiment succeeds "it will be a step in the direction of making education more of an independent, personal adventure and less of a submission to a prescribed routine." This is a step we should all be glad to take, for we often find ourselves impeded by apparently unreasonable rules, barassed by petty requirements. Such freedom as this reading period promises would be a welcome change. Bryn Mawr "College News".
Want to keep up with breaking news? Subscribe to our email newsletter.