Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...started on the fact that there is only one Moral Reasoning course in the fall--and it's scheduled for 9 a.m. But in truth, neither of these things would have bothered me at all if it wasn't for the fact that I have to take Core courses. And thinking about the Core makes me depressed...
...obvious that the Core needs reform. It doesn't work. With a very few notable exceptions, professors don't want to teach the classes, students don't want to take the classes. But I'd rather have six more Core requirements than one "Western Civ" class. I'd rather double my science requirements than be told I am about to read the "Great Books...
Unfortunately, although Harvard's Core doesn't announce that it is a tribute to Western civilization, you can slip through learning little else...
...among the many dangers of the Core curriculum--brain-numbing as it is in too many ways--is that it is in many ways a two-semester "Books" course. One half is "Great Books." The second half is "Other Books." Or "non-Great Books...
...most troubling and disturbing matter that has shocked the American people right to the core," Bush declared, though he cautioned that he had no confirmation Higgins had in fact been hanged. "There is no way that I can properly express the outrage that I feel," he said...