Word: aikens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First, Aiken complained of Harvard's large lecture classes. He said that he used to teach part of Hum 5, which had 500 students. Aiken explained that he stopped teaching the course because "lecturing at such a distance, psychological and physical, to 500 students, was not a way to communicate...
...Aiken said that large lecture classes have kept Harvard students from having access to their teachers. But at Brandeis, there are few classes with more than 60 or 70." He called Brandeis "A new, smaller, more negotiable, and more friendly university...
...Second, Aiken complained that under-graduate education has suffered at the expense of the graduate schools. He claims that Harvard has become simply "a place of passage to the graduate schools," and that the College has become primarily a university-college...
...Aiken said that the aspirations of the graduate schools have hurt the Liberal Arts education. Aiken termed under-graduate education at Harvard "too utilitarian." He added that "General Education ought to continue throughout a man's entire education, including graduate school...
...Aiken insists that Brandeis, however bad, is better than Harvard, however good. He concluded that "the Brandeis kids are more abrasive, more critical." Aiken has written a book entitled On Going To Brandeis, to be published next year by the University of Indiana Press...