Word: barzun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cannot establish general education successfully on a departmental basis," was the comment of Jacques Barzun, Columbia professor, on the latest developments here, before he participated in a three man panel on "Education in a Fumbling Society," at 7:30 o'clock in the Dunster House Dining Room...
Praising its extensiveness and felicity of expression, Barzun discovers weaknesses in the report of Harvard's "Objectives" committee which "alert opponents of General Education will seize upon" and "which will confuse those eager to follow the call...
...evidence of "incoherent judgment," Barzun says, "Even in describing the proposed curriculum, the report seems to be attending to too many things for a clear grasp of its own meaning...
...Barzun criticizes as a "philosophic misunderstanding" the Committee's failure to find a satisfactory place for the natural sciences in the general education curriculum...
...neglect of history," Barzun means evidence collected at other colleges that Harvard has neglected the mass of which had already adopted some of the general courses and other features proposed in the Committee Report. Barzun considers this the Report's weakest point...