Word: coring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-story house, built in 1840 by Oliver Hastings, is registered in the National Register as a historical landmark. Hastings also constructed the Core Office Building at 38 Kirkland St. The two buildings are classics of the American Greek Revival style, Knuff said...
Partly for this reason, the majority of section leaders are drawn from Harvard's graduate schools. According to Susan Lewis, director of the Core, most of those staffing Core sections come from Harvard's graduate schools, specifically from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS...
...says that in 1986-87, the last year for which figures are available, 332--or 85 percent of those teaching in the Core--were registered graduate students at Harvard. Of these, 88 percent were from GSAS, with the remaining 12 percent drawn from other graduate schools...
...What I would like to see is capping in courses where we know we won't be able to staff it above a certain limit, like in lab courses because of space limitations, or in extremely large courses, like those in the Core," says Pilbeam. "It's a more responsible reaction on our part to put together a strong academic program, which is after all our priority...
...years ago, there was intense activity devoted to the Core, but there's only a finite amount of attention you can pay to one area, and so now I think we're back into thinking about concentrations and other aspects of the undergraduate curriculum...