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“First of all, [the Core] does add...specific emphasis on ethical choice,” then-Harvard University President Derek C. Bok told The Crimson in 1979. “And two...there is the emphasis on quantitative skills, which...about the time I went to college...
“[There] is the emphasis on foreign cultures, which again I think reflects the fact that as late as World War II, when the Gen Ed program was introduced, we saw ourselves only temporarily involved in an international conflict, and it wasn’t until later that...
For others, the Harvard experience seems quite different. As John Rockwell put it, writing in last Friday’s New York Times, “If Harvard still deserves its image for snobbery now, it’s a different kind of snobbery, the snobbery of a perhaps excessively...
“His goal from the outset was to try to educate his kids and make sure they had a better life than he did,” he says. “There was a real emphasis from the outset on the value of an Ivy League education...
According to Kennedy School Senior Associate Dean Joseph McCarthy, Sen’s selection as this year’s speaker reflects the Kennedy School’s increasing emphasis on Harvard’s role as an international educator.