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Gary D. Rowe

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The Education of Henry Adams, 1988

T WO months before entering Harvard, I received a thick packet which contained lengthy pamphlets detailing Harvard's history, the Core


The Final Resolution

T HE Undergraduate Council seems to have a knack for fence straddling. In its half-dozen years of existence, it has


Who's Selling Out?

O NE LONELY day more than a century from now, some poor historian bemoaning his poor luck in a dusty


CAMPUS CRITIC

W HEN HE first took office in 1971, President Bok noted in a speech to the Faculty of Arts and


Why Not the Best?

I T'S A scandal. Each semester undergraduates who come to Harvard expecting to be taught by some of the finest


Courting Disaster

F EW THINGS during the past seven years of Reagan gave this liberal more joy than watching the president's second


A New Tenure System

T HE LAW School is divided, confused, and just plain unsure of what constitutes good scholarship and qualifies a faculty


Just as the Founders Feared

T WO HUNDRED years ago, when the Constitution was drafted and presented to the people for ratification, a bill of


The Core Problem

A S AN IDEA, Harvard's Core curriculum is a fine thing. It represents progress in the field of education, an