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Even as it levels death blows at the over-confident, New Hampshire gives an incalculable boost--in publicity and attention, credibility and money--to candidates who emerge unscathed. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the war hero, finally forced to declare his party, blitzkrieged Robert Taft in 1952; John F. Kennedy '40 impressed regulars by mopping up in 1960; it's after New Hampshire that the survivors start giving their aides funny looks, wondering who's going to fit in which Cabinet slot. Sometimes New Hampshire just plays the non sequitur: with two hot-to-trot Republicans (Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller...
Wilcox is the administrator who predicts-"I make a guess," he said-how many students will take Gen Ed courses the following year. What went wrong with Nat Sci 135? "I guessed way off. The students faked me out," he said...
Wilcox says much of the material copied is either out-of-print or very hard to obtain. Whenever a professor teaching a Gen Ed course compiles an anthology for resale to students, "it always goes out at cost," he adds...
...most flexible Core committee would say, 'take any eight out of ten," Wilcox says. He adds, however, that most non-science undergraduates would be happy to take those eight in non-science areas. "The whole history of Gen Ed was how to get out of Nat Sci," he says...
...Gen, Harvard Model...