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...learn because we have an interest in understanding: we notice because our vision fulfills a need in our lives. In the extreme case Mr. Welch poses, we engage in inquiry to acquaint ourselves with enough technical knowledge to enable us to earn a living, build a bridge, or attain whatever finite goal we posit. The answers we obtain have meaning only in terms of the purposes behind the questions we ask; there is no realm of "truth in itself," towards which it is the duty of the student to yearn in a pointless idealism...
...distinctive ones. It is a book written accurately, for White weighs against the attacks on Kennedy not only the candidate's counterclaims, but his experiences. After a campaign with Kennedy White wrote with emotion, but not the kind of emotion one feels now. Perhaps only when we re-attain this accuracy will we be able to see John Kennedy as we saw him then. More probably, we will never see him as "accurately" again
...often charged, that all communists are identical. His view is, rather, that the communists share a common goal--the replacement of our "free" society by communism--and that the way to make the communists renounce that goal is by making it prohibitively expensive for them to attain or approach it. This is done by being hostile to communists until they have shown by actions as well as words, that they have renounced this goal. In Goldwater's view, the communist threat is our main problem. Thus the U.N., which cannot deal with that problem, may be useful, but cannot...
Besides providing a substantial bulwark against specialization, this rule would help attain a related goal of the Doty Committee's with which we strongly agree; namely undergraduates need one hard, lab science. In the baldest terms, because of the explosion of scientific knowledge and its immeasurable effect on contemporary life, makes sense for the student to have, at the very least an acquaintance with the methods of laboratory sciences...
...COMMISSION--Secondly, the report, in its discussion of the means for attaining the goals of General Education, has set up a contradiction. The Committee hopes to include more areas of knowledge in the new program, it wants students to have wide experience outside their own field of concentration, but also it hopes undergraduates will pursue certain Gen Ed topics in depth through course sequences. In short, the Doty Committee wants students to cover a wide range of topics but also wants them to pursue special interests in depth at the same time. Without increasing the total Gen Ed requirement beyond...