<p>Interesting article about Harvard's view on academics. Just thought I would share </p>
<p>Harvard</a> encourages dusting off the classics - The Boston Globe</p>
<p>As a prospective Classics major, I like this article.</p>
<p>I am one too and my dad showed me this to make me a little less stressed haha</p>
<p>As a prospective Classics minor, I like this article.</p>
<p>Butternut approves of this article, even though she isn't a prospective classics major.</p>
<p>as a prospective Classics-cum-Sanskrit-cum-other-arcane-and-useless-stuff major, I heartily approve.</p>
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Read: reduce its offerings in the ancient Near East.</p>
<p>I view the article with skepticism. Harvard has always had and most likely always will have a strong Classics program, but its devotion to the ancient world leaves much to be desired. The NELC department has not accepted students for Assyriology, Archaeology, or Hebrew Bible in recent years, and I had one professor tell me that he feared the programs would be phased out entirely. Of course, Harvard is not alone; Penn and Yale have similarly let those programs go.</p>
<p>Look to NYU, Brown, and UCLA for increased dedication to ancient studies – not Harvard, unfortunately.</p>
<p>Though Harvard is finally in the process of hiring an Egyptologist!</p>