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Clearly recognizing that the chaotic collection of courses under the rubric of General Education was not providing Harvard students with anything like a liberal education, the administrative and Faculty bodies re-designing the curriculum advocated the need for a "Core" curriculum. The idea of a core was not novel. In 1945, when the General Education program was originally proposed in the Redbook--General Education in a Free Society--the Harvard curriculum, like those of many other liberal arts institutions, defined a body of knowledge which the Faculty considered essential for every educated person to know by virtue of being educated...
...search for social justice not only here at home but globally. We cannot seek, however, to create mirror images of the U.S. in every developing area throughout the world. It neither serves the purpose of social justice nor the vital interests of America to pursue policies under the rubric of human rights that have the practical consequence of driving authoritarian regimes, traditionally friendly to the West, into totalitarian models where they will remain in a state of permanent animosity to the American people and their interests...
...effect and is largely a Senate product, it nonetheless is a start toward resolving what is likely to be the most critical issue facing the industrialized West during the rest of the century. The nation laughed at the moral equivalent of war, and Jimmy Cardigan quickly abandoned that unpopular rubric in late 1977. But he had his priorities right...
...also playing a role in the stock surge. Says Ignatius Teichberg, a vice president at Gruntal & Co. brokerage firm: "The market will continue to rise because the investment community anticipates a Reagan victory in November." One reason for this is lingering faith among investment managers in an old rubric that says that stock prices usually rise during election years, but they climb higher and longer when the Republicans win than when the Democrats do. But the Dow industrials have not risen in the first year of a Republican Administration since 1925, after Calvin Coolidge was elected; on the other hand...
Perhaps the best way to sharpen that vocabulary is to look directly at the kinds of "teaching" presently used at the Business School under the loose rubric of the "case method...