Word: floaters
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...plan, but the Core itself remains a major mistake that the Faculty now appears very close to making. The amendments authorize a standing committee on the Core Curriculum to establish a series of departmental by-passes to the Core requirements, and to investigate the possibility of a "floater" provision that would allow students to shift a one-half Core course to another field of study...
Both proposals could substantially improve the Core, but both the by-pass and the "floater" apparently will be very limited in nature, thus leaving the vast majority of students with the same old Core. Politically, the two amendments work for Dean Rosovsky. They will probably mollify most Faculty members dissatisfied with the plan, and they serve to distract attention, at least for now, from the fundamental issue: the educational validity of the Core...
...took over at the helm and the Crimson came within a hair of getting back into the game as the half ran out. After a Colgate penalty had kept the Harvard drive alive at midfield, St. John pitched to Coolidge on an apparent sweep, but the fullback lofted a floater that Curry ran under inside the Colgate five...
Indeed, the only problem with the performance was that it came against a floater-throwing Lion quarterback. With any luck, Harvard would have picked off another three or four of his passes, Restic said...
Almost all, that is, for eight minutes into the second quarter, it missed one, a 41-yard floater down the right sideline from Burns to Fred Sullivan, which resulted in the former's touchdown jaunt two plays later...