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Redline Textbooks, which was started by eight Harvard juniors in Currier House, offers students an alternative to The Coop. They offer students lower priced textbooks for fifteen Harvard courses??with reductions between $20-50 off Coop prices. And they offer next-day delivery right to student mail centers. The Redline Textbooks website advertises that already the business has helped Harvard students save over...
...more about the academic life of the College than anyone else. These students are the most informed regarding practical issues of course selection, and they can often direct students to key faculty members and departmental tutors. Upperclassmen are most aware of competent TFs, manageable course loads and disappointing courses??issues of utmost importance to first-years, but which are often overlooked by uninvolved proctors and academic advisers. This kind of advising in no way alleviates the need for making the Faculty more accessible to students, but it will enhance the first-year experience in far more substantive ways...
...body of “integrative, foundational courses?? known as the Harvard College Courses will replace the Core, but these will be optional—students will also be able to fulfill their general education requirements with regular departmental classes...
Students did complain about the course’s heavy workload—its four one-page papers, two 10-page papers, midterm and final made it one of the most work-intensive Core courses??but they said it was not enough to dissuade them from taking the course...
...future seems to mimic the curriculum prior to 1978. In that year, the College overhauled its curriculum and decided to replace the General Education requirement with the Core Curriculum. On May 11, 1979, then-Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky released the course titles of 77 courses??60 percent of which were new—that would be included in the newly established Core...