It further claims that Harvard has become aplace where political correctness is "to many ahigher calling than intellectual integrity."

Winfield Meyers, author of the book's sectionon Harvard, said Harvard's Faculty has started toconduct "merely fashionable, methodically-madstudies as opposed to [engaging in] methodologicallearning."

Kevin Shapiro, editor of The Harvard Salient,said the book's criticisms ring somewhattrue--contending that some humanities departmentsare "mired in a postmodern deconstructionistquagmire"--but says on the whole Harvard'sprofessors remain "the most brilliant andaccomplished members of their respective academicfields."

The guide also took issue with Harvard's CoreCurriculum, which it characterized as "large andundefined," and with grade inflation, which ittermed "outrageous."

Meyers said the criticisms were not aimed atgiving Harvard a bad name but at "evaluating thereality of what is going on today at Harvard ascompared to the reputation of Harvard."

He said he hopes that the guide will helpstudents who arrive "susceptible to being misleadand simply ill-educated" learn to ask the rightkind of "critical questions."

Meyers said the review was based on interviewswith more than ten Harvard professors as well assome students. He also conducted an analysis ofthe secondary literature