Word: qrr
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grandma presides over the serving area, Death must preside over the dining area. (That's his life-size picture looming down on you from the wall, dressed in black robes and wearing the face of former Harvard President Charles Eliot--Eliot was the creator of the QRR, after all). The checker's table becomes Cerberus, sternly overseeing the passage of souls (read: diners) from savory-baked life to oak-paneled afterlife. The dining hall proper is like a vast tomb where emptiness oppresses from all sides. The endless rows of uninviting conference tables (sprinkled with too-few friendly round tables...
...QRR bullshit and rename the new core department, Future Analyst Reasoning Requirement. Even the book itself allows gimmicky advertisements from Mckinsey, Trilogy and Credit Suisse more than half its pages (earning HSA a pretty penny), creating a future business person's "little green book." (This is the Harvard student...
There are six classes being offered in the QRR area of the Core this year, ranging from Quantitative Reasoning 24, "Health Economics" and Quantitative Reasoning 26, "Choice and Chance: The Mathematics of Decision Making...
...number of classes is small because only first-years, transfer students and those who failed the QRR test five times need to take...
This change may seem like a big change in Harvard policy for those who have been gone through the QRR rite, but first-years say it's just another requirement...