Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most impressive thing about Harvard's effort at curriculum reform has been its success thus far in moving along without serious interruption. Dean Rosovsky and James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government and chairman of the task force on the core curriculum, have generally revealed themselves as masters of tact in their desire to avoid setting up the backs of any possible faculty opposition...
...kept their project moving at such a steady pace by avoiding open debate on the details of their proposal to tighten up the present General Education requirements for undergraduates until they have thoroughly thrashed them out with concerned faculty. Little wonder that none of the key figures in the core curriculum want to say much about what's gone on this summer...
After several months of debate on the general idea of imposing a core, the Faculty authorized Rosovsky this spring to appoint five small committees of faculty members, charged small committees of faculty members, charged with looking into five possible core areas over the summer. Those committees are now in the process of piecing together their separate working papers-discussion possible course offerings in "Letters and Arts," "History," "Social and Philosophical Analysis," "Mathematics and Science," and "Foreign Languages and Culture"-into an integrated whole, which should be released to the public as early as October...
Rosovsky, Wilson and Charles P. Whitlock, associate dean of the Faculty and task force coordinator, agree that things are moving along even more quickly than they had expected. Last spring, Whitlock had predicted a two-year delay in implementing the core; the three honchos now say the Faculty may well approve the initial changes in the requirement structure this year, although they pledge they won't drastically affect any students who are unable to alter their schedules in time to graduate...
Mount Usu had last erupted in 1945. Since then, magma, or semimolten rock from the mantle surrounding the earth's core, had been slowly and quietly rising through cracks under the peak of the mountain, building up tremendous pressures and triggering repeated earth tremors that rocked Hokkaido. Finally, on Aug. 7, the 725-meter (2,400-ft.) Usu awakened with a roar like that of a bomb. A huge black cloud soared to a height of 12,000 meters (39,000 ft.). A dense shower of gray ash and chunks of porous, rock-like pumice poured...