Word: coring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Core course, offered at Harvard since at least the early 1960s, was "inadvertantly omitted from the [1989-90 course] catalog," said Core Program director Susan W. Lewis...
...mishap arose from a miscommunication over Lipscomb's planned retirement next year after 30 years at Harvard, she said. Core officials believed the professor retired last June, she said...
...choice about which many are not informed. Concentration fairs give a blurred picture at best, while the real taste of a concentration comes from taking courses in the particular department. Of the eight courses taken first year, three are usually consumed by Expos and language requirement. In addition, core courses tend to be the secondary priority of new students, though the core fails to give a real picture of any particular department...
Perhaps because the Chinese are historically indifferent to introspection (as befits a culture where family rather than self is the core of an individual's identity), I never hear a coherent analysis of the Cultural Revolution, an event that so inverted the natural order that parents were shamed, beaten and in some instances even killed by their own children. All I pick up is a line or two about the traditional absence of psychological study in totalitarian societies, and some bits and pieces, mostly about the worship of Mao as a semidivine figure, and tales of the Chairman's senility...
...although the course catalogue describes History 1a and 1b as the normal point of entry for concentrators it is still not a requirement. And Harvard's Core Curriculum, introduced in 1979, is designed to introduce students to the major "approaches to knowledge" in fields of study rather than any particular body of knowledge...