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This is not to say that every student must secure his liberal education through the formal Gen Ed program. Occasionally a particularly well-prepared or imaginative freshman will be able to construct his own distribution program, composed entirely of departmental courses. Such programs, if legitimate, will reflect a keen sense of the qualitative meaning of general education rather than a cynical skill for manipulating ratios. The Gen Ed Committee should not only accept such programs; it should encourage them. And it should provide interested freshman with special advisors to help outline and coordinate the programs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Distribution Requirement | 3/15/1965 | See Source »

...Federal Power Commission today in Washington licensed the Consolidated Edison Company to construct a hydroelectric project on the Hudson River that would flood approximately 70 acres of Harvard's Black Rock Forest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New York Dam Will Flood Area Owned by Univ. | 3/10/1965 | See Source »

...Proposal also exhibits "liberalization" at its best. For it allows the sincere and imaginative student to construct his own "special General Education program." Both in the text of the report, and in logic, this provision is separate from the clause permitting all students to substitute, haphazardly, departmental for General Education courses. The "special program" idea is a sound one for four reasons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As the 'Great Debate' Resumes... | 2/16/1965 | See Source »

...Bobby. Beyond that, the program includes $36.5 million to help reclaim millions of acres of land that have been abandoned after being gouged and torn by strip mining. It also provides $41 million for hospital construction, $28 million for hospital maintenance, $16 million to construct vocational schools, $5,000,000 for water-resources studies, $5,000,000 to help develop timber resources, $6,000,000 for sewage-treatment systems, and $2,400,000 for administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: An Apple for Appalachia | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...fourth memorial Drive bill will also get a hearing tomorrow, but the underpass foes are expected to oppose it. The bill, introducted by Representative John J. Toomey (D-Cambridge), would direct the MDC to construct a center dividing strip on Memorial Drive from the Massachusetts Ave. underpass (near M.I.T.) to the River St. bridge...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Underpass Foes to Carry Plea to Mass. Legislature | 2/9/1965 | See Source »

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