Harry Larson
Harry Larson
Recent Stories
LARSON: For a grounded YCC
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The YCC has found tangible ways to improve our Yale experience.
LARSON: Discussion, not distance
True moral rectitude involves a willingness to engage with the world. It does not spring from a sanctimonious insistence on distancing ourselves from every potential source of moral contamination.
LARSON: Toning down our rhetoric
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Exaggeration not only demonizes our opponents; it undermines legitimate debate.
LARSON: No need to divide history major
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Some of the history department’s changes — including the addition of a number of optional tracks in which history majors can specialize and the creation of a broad survey course on historical methodology — constitute substantive and oddly contradictory changes to the major.
LARSON: The price of living on campus
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When I made the decision to attend Yale, I was absolutely sure I would live on campus all four years—indeed, the beautiful residential colleges, the suite structure and the quality of on-campus facilities were all factors in my decision to apply.
LARSON: Don’t let Open Yale Courses close
Unsurprisingly, my math textbook was written by an MIT professor. More surprisingly, the lectures I watch to learn the material are taught by that same professor.
LARSON: Bring back funding for community policing
When Dean Esserman was welcomed back to New Haven as the police department chief, he was hailed as a prophet of community policing, a crime-fighting strategy that prioritizes preventing crime as much as responding to it. Esserman said his mission was to bring community policing back to New Haven, saying, “In my day [New Haven] was the center of the country for community policing. It is time to regain that reputation.”
LARSON: Morality can’t be prescribed
What defines a liberal arts education? What must we require of those who aspire to one? These are questions that even top liberal arts colleges can’t agree on; the University of Chicago demands that all its students study a certain prescribed core, while Brown offers its students total freedom.
LARSON: RIP, Blue Book
As we rush back and forth between 20 classes during the first two weeks of this semester, we will for the very last time be aided by the classic, hardcopy, sometimes-moldy Blue Book.
LARSON: Finding fulfillment in finance
On Tuesday, November 15, tired from pre-break homework, I lay down in the early evening and tried to nap — until the sound of chanting Yalies woke me.