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...introductory course proposed by Barker Professor of Economics Stephen A. Marglin ’59 that would offer, Marglin said, a “more balanced perspective of views.” The petition was only partially successful, with the economics department overwhelmingly rejecting the proposal but the Core Curriculum Committee approving the course to fulfill the Social Analysis requirement...
...core problem with Harvard’s department, the proposal argues, is its disparate nature...
...brainchild of then-Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky, the Core was officially established in 1978 and as it evolved, administrators continued to pound out their vision—in what a May 16, 1979 New York Times article called “a radical departure from established methods of undergraduate education...
...allocated two to three years ago is just starting to filter down to the states where they're starting to spend it on fire trucks. But the same demographics that drive the RV business drive the ambulance industry. Eleven thousand Americans turn 50 every day. They're entering the core buying market for RVs. But this also means more of us are taking rides in ambulances...
...problem is that the Core deals with methods instead of ideas....Another problem is that 1,600 students graduating from Harvard don’t have this common experience,” he says...