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Students and Faculty criticized many recommendations of the Core Review Committee when it released its working paper in February. The only part of the paper no one refuted was the proposal to add a quantitative reasoning field to the Core...
According to Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53, who chairs the Core Review Committee, he will bring legislation, including a quantitative reasoning recommendation, for a discussion before the full Faculty...
...working paper, the Core Review Committee proposes that a quantitative reasoning area be added to the Core only when there are "a sufficient number of courses available to provide real choice for students with different levels of skill...
Hurwitz agrees with the Core Review Committee that there must be a wide range of courses available to fulfill the requirement...
...Core (a.k.a. "thoughtless pastiche"). A tired horse, but since it appears the Core Review Committee did little more than have tea for the past year when it was supposed to be revamping the program, we need to beat it again. Allow concentration classes to substitute for Core classes across the board, because no one learns "methods and approaches to knowledge" in more than one or two of their Core requirements. And if the Faculty really gets carried away, be bold! Admit that Harvard is not providing its students with a broad liberal education, and enact a "Great Books" curriculum. That...