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...Conant, who presided over the first phase of Harvard's growing involvement with the Federal Government from 1933 to 1953, said the massive entrance of the government into educational development made planning both more complicated and more necessary...
...speech which ranged widely over educational problems here and in Europe, Conant also repeated a proposal "which has been ignored before and will probably be ignored again"--that graduate and professional schools establish a set of comprehensive examinations in science, mathematics, English composition and literature, and history, which all applicants would be required to take...
...Conant predicted that setting rigorous academic standards at the graduate level "would have a revolutionary effect on instruction not only in high schools but in our colleges as well...
Though he warned at the outset that comparative education is "a tricky and dangerous field" and stressed that "education is not an exportable commodity," Conant said that American and European universities both face the problems of streamlining professional courses of study that are becoming longer and longer...
...Conant said he was happy to seize on Clark Kerr's term, the multiversity, to describe the difference between American universities, which combine undergraduate and graduate instruction, and European universities, which are solely for professional education. Selection in Europe, he noted, takes place at ages 10-12, when only ten to 20 per cent qualify for academic secondary education; half to two-thirds of these are later dropped...