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Just as the rationalizations are running out, the linguophiles come up with leadership and tradition. Harvard, you see, is a leader, and if it stopped requiring language skills of every student, all the schools of the country would decide that such studies were an utter waste of time and abolish them. Tradition reminds us that civilized men speak foreign languages--they have also, at varied times, worshipped kings, written bad poetry, and listened to folk songs...
...Committee would probably just as well abolish the requirement completely, but then it would seem that we didn't care about language training, and we would be forgetting about students who try to slip by with a minimum of work...
...brought into focus the underlying fact-blurred by all the talk of New Frontiers-that, while much changed on Inauguration Day 1961, much remained unchanged. If John F. Kennedy intends to head toward a New Frontier, he will have to start out on the old paths. He could not abolish the legacy of the Eisenhower Administration even if he wanted to-any more than Ike could or wanted to undo the New Deal...
...press conference yesterday, President Bunting praised the proposal to abolish the distinction between Honors and non-Honors programs of study by opening tutorial to all students. "Whether or not a student prefers participating in tutorial work should not determine whether or not he receives Honors," she said...
...proposal to abolish the Honors program was made by Richard T. Gill '48, Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Leverett House...