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Finally, the Core office has an important duty to consider more carefully the relative popularity of classes and assign classroom locations accordingly. The Warren Court, for example, was overrun by students in 1996 and is again in 1998, both because of its enduring popularity and the Core's failing to put the class in Sanders Theatre, where it should...
Henry Rosovsky, former Dean of the Faculty and key player in the conception of the Core program, quoted the following from Howard Lee Nostrand in his book, The University: An Owner's Manual: "General education means the whole development of an individual, apart from his occupational training. It includes the civilizing of his life purposes, the refining of his emotional reactions, and the maturing of his understanding about the nature of things." Rosovsky stops short of saying that the purpose of a liberal arts education is to make students into good citizens, but neither he nor Nostrand is far from...
Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 put this issue in historical perspective. "The Core grew out of the General Education program, which was a great achievement of postwar optimism," he wrote me in an e-mail. "But [d]uring and after Vietnam," he continued, "the sense that the state was responsible for preserving important values and the College had a role in that too was shattered...
...sure, that happened in part. But some voters close to the core issues found a way to wade through competing claims of patronage...
...What you respect about Weld is his intelligence," Williams said. "He has a great wit, even if you don't agree with him. With Cellucci, I have the hard time recognizing the core...