Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...level officials at all. Opinion and calculations over the benefit of registration in wartime have variously put the mobilization time saved at up to two weeks, or no time whatsoever. Last week, the release of yet another study--this one conducted by the President's own commission--indicated the latter...
...students may not substitute departmental courses for Core offerings. It would be patently absurd, of course, to imagine that in two years of Faculty deliberations that option never came to mind. Keller traces the conflict between "hard Core" and "soft Core" advocates, the former favoring and the latter advocating more flexibility. Basic to the discussions was the disputed definition of a "broad education"--should it stress knowledge of specific subject matter in several areas, or focus instead on introducing students to the different disciplines' "modes of inquiry...
Firmly believing the latter, Rosovsky and other fervent supporters of the proposed plan fought the advocates of flexibility by stressing Core courses' special nature. Unlike departmental courses, they were to treat the broad themes and analytic methods of the appropriate discipline in question, using the actual course material as essentially a case study rather than as knowledge to be acquired. As such, Core courses would obviously be irreplaceable, and innumerable survey courses that might otherwise seem appropriate for the acquisition of a "broad, common core of knowledge" would not fit into the Core because of approach...
...find reality in the distorted, take environment in which he lived. On the one hand were the insatiable expectations of fans who thought they owned him, on the other all the trappings of the elite--the women, the booze, the drugs, Lennon, being only human, succumbed to the latter as often as not. And when he finally rebelled and did what he wanted to do, he had the former to take...
...council guarantee the future success of Harvard students. He has also called his seven opponents for the chairmanship "maggots" and "the base excrement of mediogrity." "Predictably he's been called a few names himself, including "fascist," "beffecn" and "the nest P.T. Barnum." When a fellow candidate threw out the latter epithet. Evans responded: "If I get the chairmanship, you shall be ruthlessly purged...