Word: cores
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...February eased into March, with all the niceties that make a month worth living, if not remembering. The snow blackened and turned to crumbs. The Faculty got ready to make itself famous with this beast called a Core Curriculum, and smiled as The Times and half the other newspapers in the country dropped them onto the front page--not the lead story, to be sure, but still down there on the front page, set in a nice conservative block of type...
...Core marched forward, through Faculty Council and debate in the full Faculty. It became A Cause: it was the future of Harvard, and also the past, a way of preparing the school to deal with the future, and also redeeming it to fulfill the goals of its hoary liberal-arts tradition. It was a monument to Henry Rosovsky, the man of the future, and a memorial to James B. Conant '14, the man of the past. Conant's death in mid-February hammered home the point; the death of the architect of General Education, the first Harvard president to become...
Davis said that disallowing Core exemptions if a student takes a fourth year will insure that people do not take advanced standing just to reduce their non-concentration requirements...
Under the Core transition requirements, the Class of '83 will have to take one half-course in each of two sub-areas of the Core. The requirement will increase by two each year until the Class of '86 which will have to fulfill the complete eight half-course Core...
Many current Gen Ed courses that do not fit into the Core and do not become departmental courses will be in a new group of "non-departmental" courses. During the transition period, these courses and Core courses will be assigned to one of the three Gen Ed course areas for students who must still fulfill all or part...