From Aristotle to Twain to Joyce, the complaint is the same: too much reading.
At Harvard it's a given: time spent pouring over textbooks, sourcebooks and classics cuts into students' essay writing, socializing and extracurriculars.
Or, more likely, the reading just doesn't get finished.
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Many humanities classes and cores expect students to read and absorb 150 to 250 pages of reading per week, giving lots of humanities concentrators a total of close to 1,000 pages.
Even though students complain, they have accepted the large reading loads that come with a Harvard education.
But that doesn't mean they read all of it.
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