Word: core
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With an organizational core of about ten students, the group received official recognition from Dean Monro and the Harvard Council for Undergraduate Affairs and proceeded to "aid in the election of Lyndon B. Johnson, a calm, moderate, experienced administrator...
...Justice Department was keeping a guarded silence. But the circumstances surrounding the Sokolov trial offered another more plausible, and far more bizarre, explanation. At least 75 U.S. counterintelligence agents had done undercover work to help crack the Sokolov operation. Their testimony would be the core of the Government's case. Then, early last week, Attorney Edward Brodsky, appointed by the court to defend Sokolov and Joy Ann, dusted off a U.S. statute passed in 1795, which provides that the Government must reveal the "abode" of any witness in the federal trial of persons charged with a capital offense. Brodsky...
...fervent is Black's present belief in the "firstness" of the First Amendment, "the heart of our Government," that he says absolute freedom of speech even permits the publication of pornography, no matter how "hard-core." If obscenity is now considered a special kind of nonspeech for which people can be arrested, what is to prevent some demagogue from calling his critics "obscene" and arresting them? That, says Black, citing his well-thumbed Tacitus, is just what happened in Rome under Caesar Augustus. Moreover, the Supreme Court's current obscenity doctrine forces it to read every allegedly hard...
...students would take the same lower level courses) and "philosophical" (the content of the courses would be concerned with the historic themes of Western civilization). But in the last nineteen years the word general as shared and philosophical has become almost meaningless; students do not have to take a core of offerings but instead have some choice, and the themes of the West are only part of a program which emphasizes methodology as much as historical content, quantitative analysis as much as an appreciation of the qualitative values of our past. Moreover, the broad explosion of knowledge in the past...
Theortically, the means for gaining the education-in-breadth goal of Gen Ed range from "totalitarianism," a core system in which every Harvard student takes exactly the same basic courses, to complete laissezfaire, whereby a student is required only to take some courses outside his own field of concentration. In 1945, the famous "Redbook," General Education in a Free Society, embraced a close approximation to the former plan, defining the word general as both "shared"--students taking the same lower-level courses with little choice in fulfilling upper-level requirements--and "philosophical," denoting the historic themes of Western Civilization...