Word: generality
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Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel the University, put it this way, "Under the Bakke decision I think there can be minority sub-committees--the question is what their functions will be." That was a question the Bakke case was supposed to decide, but didn...
Clive will teach two middle-level courses on British history this year, filling in a two-century gap in the History Department's presentation of English history. In addition, he will apply some of his leave research to the preparation of a General Education course, to be called Social Sciences 105, "Classics of Historical Writing: 18th Century to the Present," which is scheduled to begin next fall...
...committees will continue this year the process of creating the Core, which began in 1975 when Dean Rosovsky called for a review of the old General Education program. Begun in the '40s when a liberal education was expected to, as Whitlock says, "preserve and pass on western traditions and culture," the Gen Ed. program lost much of its cohesiveness in the '60s when a proliferation of courses added titles to the catalog that had less and less reference to the original goals of the program...
Some Core courses will come from the ranks of existing courses, possibly in modified form. Although the Core committees have to make the final decisions, Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, is conducting a preliminary study to determine which Gen Ed courses might qualify for inclusion in the Core. The study, concerned mainly with determining how much of the budget for Gen Ed might be transferred to the Core directly, shows that or about 75 Gen Ed courses offered this year, about 30--mostly introductory courses in the Natural Sciences--seem to fit the Core criteria. Wilcox says...
Over the last few years, college fundraising drives have suffered. Harvard's drive for the athletic complex faced particular problems because its success hinged on receiving a number of large contributions; the general fund drive strategy of hitting a large number of alumni for relatively small donations would not work for a specialized project such as the athletic complex, Athletic Department officials said...