Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ISSUE OF responsibility lies at the core of another aspect of the divestment movement at Harvard: discipline. The Faculty has reconstituted a Vietnam-era disciplinary body--the student-faculty Committee on Rights and Responsibilities (CRR)--to punish some of the 200 students involved in an April sit-in at the headquarters of Harvard's Governing Boards and a blockade of a South African diplomat in a Lowell House room...
Battling the Core...
...several alumni were less than satisfied with buildings added to the core campus in the past several decades, calling them everything from "surrealistic" to "less romantic...
...appearance at Harvard would capitalize on it. Harvard would be perceived as either applauding the man, as well as respecting his office, or at least as thinking that he is harmless enough to be or act, on this occasion as a political neuter Reagan, ideologue and politician to the core of his being, could not be, above politics in the decision it makes I remembered with pleasure FDR's appearance at the 300th anniversary, when I was an undergraduate, I didn't mind his politics so much. As remember it, it was a political as well as an academic event...
...came from sufficiently different backgrounds for us to learn a lot from one another. I admire the magnificent diversity of the Harvard classes of today; I also admire the range of sports and extracurricular activities, much broader than was ours. I also believe that since the adoption of the Core Curriculum and more importantly, the serious implementation of it by senior faculty, instruction in many fields is on a more personal basis than it was in our time, recollections of some classmates to the contrary notwithstanding...