Institutes of Higher Learning?

1. Mc Daniel College, Westminster, Maryland

I was just checking a Westminster German Group article that was published in their Vereinsnachrichten for April 2019. (I was in the hospital then and missed my usual readings.)

The author was upset that McDaniel College had recently eliminated the German Major and German minor, citing lack of students wanting such degrees.

Having enjoyed my German studies, I was saddened by these eliminations. But I was irritated that in the same timeframe, they had dropped these studies:

Art History

Latin

French

Music

Religion

Wait a minute! I thought this was a Liberal Arts College!

Here is what they substituted for the dropped studies:

Arabic

American Sign Language

Chinese

French and Spanish Together (?)

I have nothing bad to say about the new courses, I'm just upset about the ones that were dropped.

MONEY!

2.  Boston University (BU)

I look forward to a sparsely issued magazine called Bostonia, that is delivered to all living alumni. The Spring and Summer 2022 issue was quite interesting in my opinion.

Besides other subjects like Medicine, Communications and Liberal Arts, BU has become heavily involved in the scientific usage by computers.  (They may be trying to rival nearby MIT.)

To house all of their laboratories, lecture space, study halls and technical libraries, they are having built a monstrosity of an edifice which will tower over Boston and spoil the looks of its skyline forever. (IMHO)

    

It looks to me as if someone stacked a bunch of Lego bricks and a bunch of them need to be shoved in to "even up" the stack.

What do you think?

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