Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York, New York--The Big Apple was sweet last Saturday for the Harvard women's soccer team, but the men's squad found it rotten to the core...
...little ironic, isn't it, that popular culture has so suddenly elevated the former Secretary of Education who advocated the tried and true classics? The same one who once berated Harvard for letting trendy Core courses displace Aristotle, has suddenly become a trend...
...Harvard Core Curriculum is entering its second decade this fall. Nothing will magically make its work in the way its planners envisioned. However, it could at least make itself more popular by bridging the gulf between academia and the rest of the world--not just in content but also by changing the "approaches to thinking" it purports to be all about...
After a semester of suffering through large impersonal courses with all the other starry-eyed fresh types, I knew something was wrong. The only gods I'd met were Bacchus and Rosovkus, patron god of the Core. Where were the exciting intellectual experiences I had dreamed of? Where was Apollo or Athena? Hell, where was Aphrodite...
...that's not the worst. You can always learn to avoid arena-courses and one Core a semester is a humbling growth experience. The real worst thing at Harvard is your fellow students...