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...FACULTY of Arts and Sciences' overwhelming vote on May 2 to approve the much-publicized Core Curriculum program will alter the basic shape of the "Harvard education" for years to come, just as the General Education proposal did after its institution in the late '40s. While it is true that the Core will not affect the curriculum of anyone now in the College--a factor that probably accounted for the marginal student opposition the plan received all year--the Core will affect subsequent classes at least until the end of the century...
...more unfortunate aspects of the Core controversy was the method by which it was discussed and finally adopted. Harvard's administrators like to function in quiet, low-profile fashion, tinkering with the system but largely failing to consult the students who will be affected by their plans. True to form, the Core has arrived with a minimum of student input. It is strangely presumptuous--almost insulting--to ask undergraduates to buy the idea that a small number of Faculty members know enough about Harvard's problems to be able to suggest a replacement for Gen Ed. A Crimson poll...
...question they respond in mock-serious voices: "We hate our jobs, the kids here are all snobs, we don't get paid enough, and they work us like slaves!" Then they laugh. "Is that what you wanted to know?" someone says. Then she smiles, "No... It's not true. We love our jobs, we really do." The other dining hall workers sitting around the table nod in agreement, each adding a sentence or two praising Harvard's management and its students...
...There's nothing potentially illegal or unconstitutional about it. Some people would feel it would look better if everyone were treated equally. But you know in admissions that's not true," he added...
...audience, and condescending to no one. Neither snooty nor tackily populist, it is a lesson in civic good manners. "The aim of architecture is to build well. Well-building hath three conditions: commodity, firm ness and delight." Sir Henry Wotton's maxim is as true today as it was 350 years ago, and Pei's building reminds us that the sense of ethical and aesthetic responsibility from which it issued is not, after all, quite dead...