Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...strange mess: Everyone's worst fear (being found out) enacted in a flash tragedy. Why did he wear two V-for-valor pins? Two seems to be piling it on a bit thick. Did the first false-macho decoration demand a twin, a second iteration, to make it convincing...
...student can complete a degree at Harvard by taking 32 courses (half-courses, as they are officially designated), or four a semester. This is fewer than is demanded at many other institutions that require, say, 120 to 124 credits to graduate, with most courses counting for three credits. Further, an overwhelming majority of Harvard students pursue degrees with honors, meaning in most cases that their concentrations demand 15 or 16 courses. Thus fully half their undergraduate program is concentrated in one area. To this we must add the seven to eight Core classes that most students must take, two semesters...
What then is to be done? First, let us raise the number of courses needed to graduate to 36. Second, let us limit the number of courses any concentration can demand to 12. Finally, let us move concentration selection to the end of the sophomore year, after students would have completed 13 courses and be in the middle of 4 or 5 others. In this way, assuming the Core stays more or less as it is, students would have 12 courses in the area of concentration, eight Cores, two language, one Expos and thirteen electives...
...Harvard's world-class reputation is not built on its extracurricular activities, however wonderful some of them may be. Nor, I suspect, do most students come here because of them. In considering curricular reform we must leave students time for a life, but we must also demand that they be students first and athletes, musicians, debaters, public servers, journalists or whatever, second. The Faculty must act to provide all Harvard students with a more demanding set of curricular requirements so that all students who come here get the maximum benefits of what Harvard has to offer...
...coincidence that these same companies have been able to embrace the leading management trends of the past decade: flat organizations; bottom-up management; empowerment; customer-focused, just-in-time manufacturing, and total quality. These philosophies demand a flexible and dedicated work force not locked in battle with management. As a CEO put it, "This is not do-good stuff. This is the way you make money...