Visits: 34 Swift-inspired classes are sweeping colleges across the country. The syllabus is much like what one might expect from an undergraduate English course, with texts by William Wordsworth, Willa Cather and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. But there is one name …
The First 10 Words of the African American English Dictionary Are In
Visits: 29 An exclusive look at a dictionary consisting entirely of words created or reinvented by Black people. (Don’t worry: All three variants of “bussin” are included.) In a recent online presentation, editors and researchers working on a first-of-its-kind dictionary …
What’s the Value of Harvard Without a Campus?
Visits: 42 Dumebi Adigwe, a rising sophomore studying mathematics at Harvard University, has no idea where she is going to live. This week, Harvard announced it would allow only up to 40 percent of its nearly 6,800 undergraduates on campus …