Word: breadths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...methods and curriculum at the Naval Academy [Feb. 8]. After almost four years with the Pacific Fleet, I have become acquainted with many officers of civilian-college backgrounds. In this time, it has become evident that the course of instruction at the Naval Academy is lacking in the breadth of its horizon and the depth of its technical preparation...
...though we wonder how you know fiber bundles or Spanish verbs are the greatest joy without having tried anything else). But if you think experience offers a plurality of joys, if you have interests extending beyond formal education which you have done nothing to satisfy, then be assured: breadth does not equal academic abandon. If, on the other hand, the straightaway path to a graduate or professional degree is the only thing that interests you, then know this: some detours have prettier scenery...
...synthesize exploding fields of knowledge-all of which increasingly impinge on each other. Harvard's famed general education requires that courses be chosen from three major areas (humanities, natural and social sciences), and a high-level committee is busily pondering changes to give it more depth and breadth. Columbia has revamped its own pioneering (1919) general education program. Contemporary Civilization. The required sophomore part used to consist of smatterings from the works of 50 or so great thinkers; now it offers solid courses from anthropology to economics, a shrewd compromise between specialization and generalization...
...hard put to match the remarkable curriculum announced last week by Brown University. Heretofore, Brown had a standard general education setup: required courses in three basic areas (humanities, social studies, science and math), all of them to be completed in the first 2½ years. To foster breadth of interest, students were restricted to a maximum of twelve one-semester courses in their major. But starting next fall, Brown will banish all this for a frankly "permissive" system based on the idea that early specialization may lead to later generalization...
John Knowles is a precisionist and a sharp contrast to the ebullient undiscipline of Condon and Heller. His first novel, A Separate Peace, is brief and limited in the breadth if not the depth of the experience it describes. Its author is always in perfect control of style and structure. Its theme is the death of innocence; a prep-school boy moves to the disillusion of adulthood by causing, in a half-willed way, the death of his best friend. It is a book that rings in the mind long after the reader has finished it, whose reverberations fill...