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...upper-level General Education curricula, the most radical changes occur in the Humanities division. Humanities...
...would be ideal if the engineering concentrator would only have to take six courses in his field, as does his fellow who concentrates in Government. But as science grows in complexity, engineering education becomes more and more technical. Engineering schools so crowd their curricula with technical subjects that they find time to give students only the barest background in the humanities and social sciences. Because this type of education is so fundamentally opposed to the tradition of liberal education, the University has never tried to develop an undergraduate engineering program that could seriously compete with that of the trade schools...
...Committee declared that it has not conducted and does not intend to conduct any "investigation of subversive infiltration of the clergy or religion." This is in keeping with its principle of not probing into "the curricula of any school" or into "the classroom procedures or teaching methods of an educator...
John W. Stokes '54 and a student who will be appointed from the Radcliffe Curricula Committee will head the group to consider this problem...
...predecessors kept the University from succumbing to the utilitarian principle--the most practical education at the cheapest price--that had choked many other American institutions, the curriculum remained almost medieval. The function of the Faculty was to hear recitations, not to lecture. Students were forced to follow rigidly restricted curricula, and were made to pick up what they could from the material, virtually without help...