Word: core
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...settings and the personalities that enlightenment creates without wanting, myself, to be thoroughly enlightened." Looking back on his career, he criticizes himself for having been too pliant and obedient, too willing to "go along" with the exigencies of reality. But in the process he displays his self, the stubborn core that countered and threw waves back against the current of his times...
MacDonald worries about how his decisions will affect the current sophomore core--several of whom have high hopes for an NHL career...
...Dominguez says the very breadth of the Core sometimes brings professors unexpected benefits...
Without the Core, Harvard's faculty might "retreat to their departments and their research," Dominguez says. Professors reluctant to teach Core courses may gain new academic perspectives by extending into related areas, he says...
...Geyser University Professor Rosovsky, founder and father of the Core, says he thinks the choice made possible by Harvard's large faculty is one of its most important attributes, even a decade after its beginning...