Word: cores
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Director of the Core Program Susan W. Lewis compares Harvard to other academic institutions: "At Princeton, the courses are capped. The people that are hurt by this are the freshmen and sophomores." Harvard administrators say they know better. To limit the class size would be to slice down options even more, they...
...Professor of American Legal History Morton J. Horwitz's course, Historical Study B-61, "The Warren Court and the Pursuit of Justice," attracted so many students that a restricting lottery was necessary. But when Horwitz attempted to remedy the evil by offering to teach his course every year, the Core office refused. Unwilling to face the hellish lottery process again, he reveals to FM he will no longer teach his "Warren Court." Horwitz has chosen to focus on his other Core class, "The Rise of a Critical Movement of Law, 1920-1940," last offered five years ago and considerably less...
...Word travels fast using the available literature as a sound base, and Harvard students often share their personal thoughts about different classes. Even a passing remark has the power to influence a student's interest in a course. "For core classes, I generally take the ones that everyone has taken and said were good," Rachel Altfest '01 admits...
...More often than not, students look to these popular classes to satisfy a Core requirement-not intellectual curiosity. Students tend to hold these classes to a much lower standard than they would an elective or concentration requirement...
...While these two students epitomize the heinous fallout of a monster class, the small-scale implications of negligible student-teacher relations can prove just as detrimental to the student. Mendelsohn himself admits that the distance between him and his students in his Core course is glaring. "Someone will walk though the Yard and smile at me and I'll have no idea that they are in my class," he recalls...