Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Upper-level Gen Ed courses could be more specific within the three areas of Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences--in some ways mirroring current, more specific Core courses. However, by the early '70s, Faculty felt the quality of courses offered in the program was in decline...
According to Ward, the idea of Harvard's insularity was forever shattered by the ensuing police brutality as middle-and upper-class students from privileged backgrounds who never realized this could happen to them received what graduates describe as a "wake-up call...
...remember seeing pictures of these women in the halls and thinking, 'They would die if they saw me here because here were these white, upper-crust women from New England society, and here I was a young black female,'" she adds...
...attempt to fight the polarization that had supposedly taken over the College and to increase the diversity within the campus, the administration decided that upper-class housing would no longer be a matter of (even mitigated) choice. However, with the distance a year provides and with the results so far discernible from randomized housing, we can conclude that the experiment is not headed for success...
Today, in the upper-class dining halls, most students don't indulge in intellectual debates about philosophy, classics or even current political situations. But I cannot say that I always mourn this change. Nowadays, dinner brings with it a certain sense of comfort, filled instead with down-to-earth conversations about classes and television shows. Does this mean that the mythical intellectual Harvard is dead...