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...speech at Brandeis on problems facing European and American universities, Conant stressed that there is a "ferment in higher education in Europe and the United States." He said institutions on both sides of the Atlantic face the demand to expand facilities, the increasing need for highly trained individuals, and the problem of identifying and educating all the potential talent available...
President Emeritus James B. Conant '14 said last night that the urgent demands being made on American colleges and universities challenge the nation to develop "new procedures by which the planning of education, especially of higher education, can be improved...
...When Conant appointed the committee that formulated the original program, he explained that he had used the phrase "General Education" because he knew that many scholars felt their discipline provided a liberal education if properly taught, but he thought that few would claim that their field provided a general education. That distinction is the crux of one of the major problems that confronts the Doty committee...
...Doty Committee must decide whether Harvard should be loyal to the fabric of General Education and whether the precepts that Conant stated 21 years ago are as significant today. It was easy to ask for loyalty to the great traditions of Western civilisation and to talk of educating for citizenship, in the midst of a World War, Harvard's program was born on the crest of an intellectual wave which rose at Chicago and Columbia--it was not a pioneering and daring venture...
...Merit Scholarship Corporation proclaims that, "Talent is our most important national resource," General Education is a less popular rallying point. Within a community of scholars, it is difficult to say that scholarship is not sufficient training for a citizen of a free country, or to remind the Faculty of Conant's dictum that a liberal education is not necessarily a general education. It is not always easy to remember that "non-departmental" and "General Education" are imperfect synonyms...