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...Core Curriculum is only a poor substitute for the good advice and counseling that would direct, but not coerce, students to attain a balanced education. And the Core will not solve one of Harvard's fundamental problems: the dearth of close associations between students and Faculty members. Instead, by setting up huge introductory courses as the bases of an already-suspect Harvard education, the Core will only widen the gulf between students and Faculty members. A Harvard education could easily be reduced to instruction by busy, underpaid graduate students who are more interested in pleasing their doctoral advisers than accommodating...
Fascinated by Soviet Jewry, she wants to live close enough to examine first-hand the situation under which Russian Jews live. She confided that she is also anxious to learn how to drink vodka like a true Russian...
Dean Rosovsky found himself in the national headlines again in December after he apparently rejected the Yale Corporation's offer of that university's presidency. Rosovsky never confirmed or denied that the offer had been made, but sources close to the dean reported that he turned down the trip to New Haven because he did not want to leave Harvard before completing his review of undergraduate education. Yale instead chose A. Bartlett Giamatti, a 39-year-old professor of Renaissance literature, who had already been immortalized by having a moose-head trophy named in his honor and placed...
...student representatives on the Education Resources Group (ERG) and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), for example--generally supported the plan. "The students who have gone into this very carefully can see the virtues of this," he says, and praises CUE and ERG members for working so closely with the Faculty Council and the summer groups when the Core plan was being formulated. That close cooperation resulted in the Faculty's decision to adopt virtually all of the amendments CUE suggested--including the so-called "by-pass" and "floater" amendments--and demonstrated, Rosovsky believes, that the channels of communication between...
...Sources close to the Corporation continued to speculate yesterday that Indianapolis 500 winner Al Unser is driving to Cambridge this week to receive an honorary degree at Thursday's commencement ceremonies...