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...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...
...FRENCH PAVILION will consist mainly of three buildings looking like a children's game in their pure geometrical forms: a rectangle housing Maxim's restaurant, an immense egg-shaped ellipsoid (the largest structural ellipse ever built), which will shelter a 1,500-seat theater for the Folies-Bergére, and a pyramid in which visitors will view "The Treasures of Versailles," a huge collection of paintings and art objects...
Ford suggested that ultimately the College's program in the creative arts might consist of "a fairly high level of give and take between House arts programs and the Center...
Barnett's topic is "Mississippi Opportunities, Constitutional Government, and the Rights of the States." Roger Fisher, professor of Law will moderate, and the panel will consist of Louis Jaffe, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Charles Fried, assistant professor of Law, and Robert Keeton, professor...
...measure their success in life. The goal: an answer to why many did resoundingly well despite poor school records. After analyzing the qualities that drive such students, Brown hopes to use them as new criteria in admissions. Over a four-year period, 10% of each freshman class will consist of seeming risks-men not strictly academic but unusually vigorous, humorous, mature or original. As one Brown official puts it: "Thus do the Lord and Barnaby Keeney provide for the Tom Sawyers of the land...