Word: contented
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many believe the Core has not completely met its broad educational aims. A frequent target for criticism is the Core's science content. In an otherwise rosy accreditation review last year, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges found Harvard's Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) superficial and criticized the absence of math in the Core...
THERE also seemed to be a disparity in the expectations some students had for the week and the content of the programs. While many of the events emphasized issues of subtle, unconscious racism, minority students in attendance repeatedly brought up questions of institutional racism. Specifically, they were interested in discussing Harvard's dearth of minority faculty members and paltry course offerings in ethnic studies...
...long, the council was content selling big fingers at hockey games and throwing mediocre parties once a semester. But during the fall semester, the council finally stopped running from its own mandate. The body asked the nine all-male final clubs to admit women, called on Harvard to negotiate with the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers and blasted an administration plan which would have made it harder for anyone not espousing the official Harvard line to win a spot on the Board of Overseers...
While neo-conservatives are content with throwing crumbs to the dispossessed, we should not be so content. It should be the goal of society to bring to the feast the groups and individuals that it is responsible for systematically excluding. One must progressively construct a society worth conserving before one can save...
...progress comes slowly, Murray said. Shewarned that students who are "set to change theworld" would have to learn to be content if theycould only "change one law, or an election...