Word: core
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Harvard's commitment to the core concept fell short of two extreme steps, and in avoiding them the Faculty introduced a flexibility into the definition of the program which opened a way for the Departments' later pressures for specialization. What the University carefully avoided doing was to stipulate in exact terms the subject matter to be covered in the new program's courses and then set up a special Department to staff them. These possibilities are not at all unrealistic, for it was in just this way that the University of Chicago defined its own General Education program, added, like...
...original core proposals envisioned one survey each in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, and two in the Natural Sciences. But to fit students in this number of courses would raise enrollment figures far beyond the desirable limit; the Faculty decided to offer each course in several different "versions." And at this point the matter of staffing became the crucial factor in determining the Departments' influence on the shape of the emerging program. For it was inevitable that a History professor would run his version of the core Social Science course differently from a member of some other department...
...most intimately connected with the General Education program are, of course, aware of what has happened with it and in most case are not dissatisfied with the process. "We sacrifice the core concept," Professor John H. Finley, chairman of the Gen Ed Committee, explains, but in turn introduce courses which "characterize" the methodology of the overall area--Humanities, Social Sciences, or Natural Sciences--in which they...
...result surprised everybody on the defense. It was Alexandria's first segregation case, and, judging from previous events and feelings here CORE members had anticipated a tough sentence from the jury in the trial...
Goldfarb and the five CORE members arrested with him, all of whom sat underneath a framed Confederate flag during the trial, will now take the case to Virginia's Court of Appeals. There was some hesitancy about a further appeal before the sentence, but now the group will face only a $100 fine if the appeal is not granted...