O’ The Humanities
Posted on June 29th, 2013 in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »
The NYT gets some interesting responses to Verlyn Klinkenborg’s essay lamenting the state of the humanities.
Here’s one good example of the humanities’ relevance: Harvard grad Jed Yueh, CEO of software company Delphix, was an English and philosophy major at Harvard.
And finally, I meant to post this WSJ tribute to Harry Parker, Harvard’s late and unquestionably great crew coach.
I’ll be in Mexico for the next couple of days; will try to post.
3 Responses
6/29/2013 4:54 pm
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At least three of those words do not, I think, mean what you think they mean.
Sleep deprivation?
7/1/2024 7:26 am
Harry Parker tribute is well worth reading. Makes one feel better about Murdoch-era wsj
7/1/2024 11:22 pm
And then there is the fact that what sometimes is offered as the teaching of history at top universities is sometimes pretty dubious.
http://ashokarao.com/2013/06/30/the-great-degeneration-by-niall-ferguson/
By contrast, Harry Parker was a great teacher. We shall not see his like again.