Word: core
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...interdepartmental courses -- what the report calls the "core curriculum" -- would in effect form a sort of Gen Ed program for doctors. The core, the report says, would provide each student with "sufficient background and familiarity with each field to know when and how to return for further details when these may be helpful to him in his future work...
...strikes them as a time-consuming system to plan, and painful to participate in. Explains one, people from different departments "don't normally see each other," the meetings would be difficult to arrange, and once they were held, everyone would wrangle for hours trying to cram into the "core" as much of their own subject as possible. "If you talk to anyone in any department, agrees another professor, "they'll say their subject fits right into that irreducible minimum...
Critics agree that "core" courses just wouldn't be good, though they offer wildly different explanations. One professor predicts that teachers would have to leave out all of the new and exciting but irrelevant developments in their field. "If you just left in the things that every doctor should know," he worries, "it would be unpalatable. It would be like eating sawdust." Another professor, however, is sure that lecturers would drop the essential in favor of the new and exciting. "If we didn't attract students
...this collection together, and you've got the core of the 1966 Harvard football team -- a team that will foil the experts this afternoon by tying for the Ivy League championship.BOB FLANAGAN apprenticed...
...Preserved. It would be oversimplifying to see Dos Passos as one who has taken two paces to the left and three to the right. There is a core of consistency in his work that reconciles the "left" tone of U.S.A. with the "rightist" color of District of Columbia. Big Business was the enemy in U.S.A. In District, the focus of power shifted: the first novel in that trilogy dealt with the power of Communism to corrupt innocent idealism; the second was a primer on political demagoguery; the third a parable directed against the emotional debaucheries of the New Deal...