Directed Studies, Yale’s year-long Great Books program for first-year undergraduates, could expand by as much as 25 percent next year, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis said in an interview. On ...

We meet people like John Erskine, the grandfather of the Great Books movement and a “gentleman of the old school,” as Beam describes him. Erskine believed a great book was one that “has meaning, and ...

PROGRAM IN TONIGHT’S 5 FOR GOOD. WE HAVE A BUNCH OF HARRY POTTER. REPORTER. IT’S AN EFFORT THAT STARTED IN CAMBRIDGE. THIS IS FANTASTIC. BACK IN 1972. DURING THOSE COUNTERCULTURE YEARS, A LOT OF THE ...