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Part two explains the Core Curriculum, Harvard's shiny new way of larnin' its undergraduates, and displays the carcass of General Education, the old-fashioned method. The Core offers courses if five "modes of inquiry:" Literature and Arts, Foreign Cultures, Historical Study, Social Analysis, Moral Reasoning and Science. These peculiar names were applied to the areas because, according to the Core's authors, they show the way specialists approach their fields of endeavor...
They say that the Square sells more books than cigarettes. Now that may be a vain boast; it is no secret that many of Harvard's best and brightest make it through four years without reading any. Somebody is either compulsive or hungry for book larnin' though, because books are big business in the Square. The Coop in the Annex in back of the main building) is the largest bookstore; it stocks almost all of Harvard's textbooks. The textbooks are on the third floor, paperbacks on the second, and hardcovers on the first. The Harvard Bookstore (1248 Mass...
...average alumni. I have." Another ('22) said, "Should we divert a little attention from the Ford Foundation's gift of 7 1/2 million bucks and give it to the football situation? From a purely sales-pitch angle, it will bring in more dollars than all that high-falutin' 'larnin'.' In industry, earnings count. In a college, I believe alumni...
They ain't had any larnin...
...York, Researcher Marjorie Burns funneled their vast findings and volumes of book larnin' by the supermarket cartload (see cut) into Education Editor Bruce Barton Jr.'s office for this week's story on The First R. After his intensive cramming, Barton sent a revision of the first draft of his story to Senior Editor Hillis Mills with a note: "I have redoosed pages 3 to 7 to too pages. I hop you like it. Everything reads much quikker . . . Sory I cauzed all this troubel. I find that suddenly my abiloty to spel and right has desserted...