Word: eds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rate of change we went through [was a factor]. When we were freshmen, we lived in womens' dorms, we had parietals...by the next year, we had co-ed bathrooms. People underestimated how radical that was for us," she said...
Harvard's General Education program (Gen. Ed.), charged with turning concentrators into liberally-educated men and women since 1946, went the way of segregated classes and ties in the Union...
...Ed. was replaced in that year by the Core curriculum, whose eight course requirements undergraduates still face, and whose future spent most of last semester in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' (FAS) intellectual spotlight...
Hence, the "approaches to knowledge" that became the Gen. Ed.'s heir as the lynchpin of a Harvard education in a post-vocational age continues. The aim remains teaching students not a skill so much as ways of "civilized" living and thinking...
Despite celebrating his 70th birthday just two months ago, Lewis adheres to a busy daily schedule. He has written a daily column for the Op-Ed section of The New York Times since 1969 and says he doesn't plan on stopping anytime soon...