Word: curricularly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences reforms the core, voting to add a Quantitative Reasoning course requirement, mandating six courses per Core Curriculum area per term and allowing high-level departmental courses to join the Core after the conclusion of a curricular review of the Core headed by University Professor Sidney Verba...
Allowing students an early move-in the Friday prior to registration has, in past years, spelled the opportunity for student groups to prepare for the Monday tabling and to get extra-curricular programs off and running. That opportunity has now been undermined...
...group of Faculty members that advise the Dean of the Faculty and the Faculty Council on curricular matters...
According to Marlyn McGrath Lewis '70, director of admissions for the College, while international applicants as a group might have slightly better test scores and academic records than the overall pool, this advantage is often at the expense of non-academic interests and extra-curricular involvement, both of which are critical factors for admission to the college. While this may be true, the admissions committee should not unduly penalize students for lack of extra-curriculars. Most foreign applicants come from countries and schools where there are very few opportunities for non-academic development and the entire system is constructed...
...does entail a greater sensitivity to the challenges facing applicants from other countries. In admitting American applicants the admissions office routinely makes allowances for different challenges faced by students. On a similar level Harvard should recognize the problems encountered by otherwise qualified foreign applicants in pursuing extra-curricular interests societies where the very notion is often anathema...