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...Crimson op-ed, Bok wrote that the former General Education program was lacking a clear sense of purpose and permitting students to sample from too large and varied an assortment of courses loosely assembled under the broad rubrics of Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences...
...When students can satisfy the requirements by taking ‘The Scandinavian Cinema’ or ‘Biology of Cancer,’ one inevitably wonders whether the program still reflects any clear sense of intellectual priorities,” Bok wrote...
...reference to Bok’s preference for more carefully delineated categories of courses, Menand pointed out that when Bok started to develop the idea for the Core in the early 70s, it was a very different...
...According to Phyllis Keller, author of “Getting at the Core: Curricular Review at Harvard,” during the last review, Bok would attend meetings of the committees to show his interest, but he was not directly involved in discussion...
Classics Department Chair Richard F. Thomas wrote in an e-mail that while he expects Faculty members to be interested in Bok’s views, he thinks Bok will play a minimal role in the future of the review...