Word: eds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five subcommittees Dean Rosovsky appointed last year created a curriculum that may adversely, if indirectly, affect America's higher education system, for Harvard carries considerable weight in social and academic circles. For this reason, outsiders and members of the University alike should bear in mind that while the Gen Ed program certainly merited revamping, the Core is not the answer...
...plans. True to form, the Core has arrived with a minimum of student input. It is strangely presumptuous--almost insulting--to ask undergraduates to buy the idea that a small number of Faculty members know enough about Harvard's problems to be able to suggest a replacement for Gen Ed. A Crimson poll in March revealed that 65 per cent of the undergraduate body was opposed to the Core, yet that important opinion was ignored and the feeble attempts at organized resistance were too little and far too late...
...replace the three now in existence. But the Core as it stands today recommends a much more rigid program, with ten rather vague areas in all, out of which students must choose eight. This is unacceptable: although we recognize the inevitability and practicality of some sort of Gen Ed revision, ten areas constitute an unnecessarily excessive infringement on students' freedom of choice. The idea of a wide variety of required courses in a loose framework, as embodied by the Gen Ed principle, is desirable. The Core goes too far in the opposite direction...
...Ed set to work on this new mission, making the final drop at Woodbridge just before the FBI closed in. The agents had no problem identifying their quarry: Enger and Chernyayev had used cars-observed near the drop-off points-registered in their own names...
...Ed McMahon...