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Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, told a Faculty meeting this spring that general education was an important educational development in the '40s because it flowed from the character of the era. The challenge facing the Faculty in its current review of undergraduate education, Beer said, was to be sensitive to new ideas that might be trying to emerge from the conditions of modern society...
Perhaps the major question that remains unanswered is whether the slow move toward the core will result in an innovative system of education, or whether it will simply consist of the old General Education program with new labels--whether it will be, as Beer put it, the idea of the modern era, or simply the idea of the '40s revisited...
...report contains a long list of not-very-startling recommendations, but interspersed among them are some interesting ones. For example, the task force proposed that the Faculty turn Memorial Hall into a coffee house or beer hall so that there would be some place on campus where students and faculty members could go and talk. The report favored four-year Houses as the "ideal," although it believed the plan would have been too expensive to implement. The Fox plan, of course, has put this recommendation to rest...
...fall. Says Bryan: "I've made a decision about what I want to do for the rest of my life. I like to be with people more than just being in a lab all day." The tall, lanky graduate does not smoke-either cigarettes or marijuana-seldom drinks beer, is largely apolitical, and spends his spare hours waltzing and tangoing with other members of M.I.T.'s ballroom dancing club. A neat dresser, with every short blond hair in place, he admits: "I'm probably more conservative than most, more traditional...
...amiable and authoritative magazine subscribed to by just about all serious foot flappers, published an article alleging that alcohol has not hurt the performances of several distance runners. Frank Shorter, the Olympic gold medalist, is said to have swallowed 1½2 to 2 liters of good German beer the night before he won the '72 marathon...