Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like to thank Gary Rowe for raising some important considerations about the Core Curriculum in The Crimson (December 13, "A Core Problem"). At the same time, members of the Harvard community should recognize that the various failings of the Core Curriculum are considerably more complicated than Mr. Rowe suggests...
...focus attention on the graduate student teaching fellows who teach sections in the Core, as a rule, is surely to identify a potential weak link in the translation of the Core's high ideals into daily pedagogical practice. But to suggest greater care in hiring and training TFs actually skirts as many issues as it raises...
...share of the responsibility for teaching undergraduates here falls to graduate students who are themselves only in the process of acquiring their academic credentials and professional training, and at least part of this situation is attributable to faculty abdication of fuller teaching responsibility. Faculty guidance for TFs in the Core is common enough, but it is certainly not the rule...
...traditional American frontier of horizontal space was receding into memory by 1920. In its place grew a new myth that supplied one of the core images of American art deco: the conquest of the air, by buildings and machines -- the taming of vertical space. The aircraft, with its fairings and streamlines, became the formal metaphor for a host of products from milkshake machines to staplers. Fantasy piled on fantasy: Bel Geddes, one of the master industrial designers of the period, looked at airfoils and fish and came up with the finned, monocoque body of his Motor Car Number...
...past, the Review has more seriously advocated controversial positions ranging from the rein-statement of the Indian as Dartmouth's official mascot, to the installment of a core curriculum...