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...Blackmer Committee was created in fall 1951 in response to increased demands for the United States to support education of its best students...
...core curriculum at the time was designed based on the report on “General Education for a Free Society” and intended to teach young Americans the principles they would need to protect freedom in the U.S. and across the world, and the Blackmer Committee was a natural outgrowth...
...conclusion of the CEP meeting, then-Dean of Admissions Wilbur J. Bender ’27 emphasized not the financial savings or increased educational opportunities, but that the Blackmer Report entrusted the big three universities to take steps to implement it and revise the U.S. educational system. If universities failed to grant credit for high school courses, professors were concerned, high schools would stop offering advanced classes...
...granted the Blackmer Report its final approval in February 1954, with Bush alone dissenting—and only on the proposal to allow students to graduate in three years...
With no organized opposition emerging at the Faculty meeting of March 2, 1954, Harvard became the first school to endorse the Blackmer Report, approving the CEP report and creating a Committee on Special Standing. Harlan P. Hanson ’48, then-assistant senior tutor of Kirkland House, was put in charge of its implementation...