Word: cores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no self-pity. His mind is hard yet, filled with the dangers and failings he perceives in the human condition, his own not excluded. He plays it as it lays. Curiously, his broad view contains a core of coherent national optimism that deepens irony. Hope and guidance from San Clemente, of all things...
...core of public trust is the belief that judges are impartial. New York Lawyer Simon Rifkind, a former judge, notes: "Impartiality is an acquired taste, like olives. You have to be habituated to it." Some judges never lose the attitudes they brought to the bench; lawyers complain that judges who were prosecutors favor the state, and judges who were defense lawyers favor the defendant...
Last year, Harvard decided on the format of the Core--students would be required to take a total of eight half-courses in five major areas--Literature and Arts, Historical Study, Social Analysis and Moral Reasoning, Foreign Languages and Cultures, and Sciences--that would contain a number of precisely-defined courses designed to teach specific "modes of thought." This year, Rosovsky and other faculty members set about drawing up these courses--with the help of a few token students forbidden to talk to their peers about the shape of the Core. When the courses were unveiled this spring, many students...
Rosovsky has made a national name for himself as the architect and promoter of the Core Curriculum. His interest in undergraduate education, however, does not extend so far as to include actual contact with many students, and even if it did, his mountains of work as dean of the Faculty would still occupy him. As chairman of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL), he's in touch with students from each House and with freshmen representatives, too. But Rosovsky's attitude towards students participating in his large fiefdom surfaced during the development of the Core. At first, Rosovsky...
This year the Confi Guide has devoted a special section to the Core Curriculum--its history, its requirements, its courses, and what it will really mean to your education at Harvard. It's the kind of information you won't be receiving from the University...