Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every senior who marches down the aisles during today's Commencement Exercises has passed the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement (QRR), but Harvard faculty members are now seriously questioning whether members of the Class of '89 have been adequately educated in quantitative methods...
Created to insure a minimum level of proficiency in the use of computers and manipulation of data, the QRR can be fulfilled by passing two short tests...
...computer and analytical requirement QRR--dismissed by several generations of Harvard students--has also been attacked for its shallow treatment in comparison with the computer revolution in industry and research in the 1980s...
...possibilities is that there should be a whole different Core area devoted to QRR," says Hollis Professor of Mathematics Andrew M. Gleason, head of the QRR subcommittee. "We could have a larger mandate, a situation under which we are not operating under an extracurricular basis...
...QRR will be one area covered by the review, says Core director Susan W. Lewis...