Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many believe the Core has not completely met its broad educational aims. A frequent target for criticism is the Core's science content. In an otherwise rosy accreditation review last year, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges found Harvard's Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR) superficial and criticized the absence of math in the Core...
...shock. I was determined not to fail the QRR for the fourth time, not when I was so close to victory...
...this time I had about two minutes left before the computer was going to cut me off and I was growing more and more frantic. I was so close to passing...and besides, no one was stupid enough to fail the QRR four times...
That Harvard wants its students to be computer-literate is a fine, even an admirable sentiment. But the poorly designed QRR requirement...
...response to complaints about campus safety, Harvard installs a new voice-activated security system in each dormitory entryway. Those who wish to open a door must correctly pronounce "Nietzsche" and be able to compute the standard deviation of a set of data, which is changed nightly. "We knew the QRR would come in handy someday," says Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett...