Word: select
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...educational professionals, by the early 1980s there was substantial angst within the Harvard community regarding the core's teaching methods and curriculum.. Campus dissatisfaction received national scrutiny when, in 1985, then-Secretary of Education William Bennett attacked the core, saying, "The core is designed not to teach any select body of knowledge, but to introduce presumably eager undergraduates to different 'modes of inquiry'.... Thus after four years, hopefully you will be able to flip a mental switch and think like a historian or an economist or a scientist. And you'd better be able to because the core...
Step Three: Select a pet issue. All you need to do is choose some Very Bad Thing (VBT) to write ninety percent of your editorials about. The traditional choices by campus writers for VBTs have been things like homophobia, homosexuals, abortions, abortion rights and the status quo. Recently, however, the most popular choice has been The Liberal Menace, an entity supposedly made up of the student body, the administration, certain professors, the press and Satan...
...makes us unique. We disagree. Harvard's history of excellence goes well beyond a mere application; it includes its faculty, its traditions, and the excellence of its student body, none of which will be affected by this change. Accepting the common application won't hurt Harvard's ability to select the finest applicants because both the new and old applications ask similarly broad questions...
...physics professor originally on a search committee to select the new master of Dudley House has himself been tapped to assume the position...
Quad residents will select a replacement for outgoing state Sen. Michael J. Barrett '70 (D-Cambridge), who is seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination...