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...Arts and Sciences reforms the core, voting to add a Quantitative Reasoning course requirement, mandating six courses per Core Curriculum area per term and allowing high-level departmental courses to join the Core after the conclusion of a curricular review of the Core headed by University Professor Sidney Verba...
...month study by the Faculty's Core Review Committee (CRC), chaired by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney H. Verba '53, marked the first attempt to reevaluate the Core's mission and future since the program's inception...
...came down squarely in favor of the Core as originally conceived. In its report to the Faculty, Verba's committee--which consisted of two students and six professors--endorsed the Core's goal of exposing undergraduates to different approaches to knowledge...
...value of mastering mathematics and logical patterns of thought has been recognized since Plato," reported the Core Review Committee led by Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney Verba '53 in April. However, student reaction has been mostly to give thanks that it will first apply to the class...
...Both he and [Pforzheimer University Professor Sidney H.] Verba ['53, who headed the Core Review Committee] should take credit for steering the Core review through to a successful conclusion," says Harry R. Lewis '68, dean of the College...