Word: council
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...subject, the Council report has had to deal with a great variety of factors; and considering its subject, a seventy page report is a fairly concise analysis. There is, however, some excess material. The recommendations concerning concentration and distribution, the tutorial system general examinations, the teaching of courses, and the House Plan are largely reiterations of any comments on facts already known to students and Faculty. But on one question, the Council's bloodhounds have struck off on a more original scent. To enable Harvard to regain its illusory objective of a really "liberal" education, the report recommends the establishment...
...such innovation as this contains at least one bitter ingredient, and the Council's proposal that the five "area" courses be made compulsory in place of the present distribution requirements will be a strong dose for those students with definite occupational proclivities. The proposal will be criticized for forcing the postponement of specialization until the final two years, until after the broad "area" background has been nailed in place. This is flying in the face of Dean Hanford's policy of providing tutorial and a certain amount of specialization for some talented men as early as their first year...
...once did, or might still do under changed conditions. If Harvard is to continue at, or even near, the top of the scholastic heap, it is time to take the cotton of complacency out of the administrative ear, and hearken to proposals such as the one made by the Council...
...STUDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS...
Four Juniors and three Sophomores were appointed to the newly elected Student Council yesterday by this year's organization, headed by Richard Sullivan...