Word: cores
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James Q. Wilson and his task force on core curriculum started with the premise that General Education needs to be changed. But the task force has arrived at a conclusion that stands greatly at increasing liberalization. Instead of recommending that the now relatively meaningless requirements be scrapped in favor of a system that would advise students to take courses deemed worthy of a General Education, it has suggested that a series of restrictions be imposed that would force students to take a limited number of offerings in seven fields...
Wilson heads the task force on core curriculum which recently recommended the replacement of Natural Science, Humanities and Social Science General Education groupings with a more restrictive program of required liberal arts courses outside the area of concentration...
...lively and resilient modern ball was the brainchild of Coburn Haskell, who proposed a rubber core. Nowadays, wind tunnels are used to gauge flight trajectory and a miniature guillotine tests the toughness of the cover. The latest breakthrough in the industry is the truncated dimple, and a controversy rages over the relative merits of balata or surlyn covered balls. Balata is a kind of tree gum, and surlyn is a synthetic material pioneered by Dupont...
After weeks of intensive organization and proselytizing, a small core of graduate students successfully engineered a one-day strike in the spring of 1972. One year later their union struck again. But by March 1973, the strike effort of the Graduate Student and Teaching Fellow's Union had fizzled, dragging down with it the union itself...
...task force reports, as task force chairmen James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government (core curriculum) and Paul C. Martin '52, professor of Physics (concentrations) insist, are strictly recommendations that will be debated and revised before ever hitting the Faculty floor...