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...just an economist-a confessed "illiterate in the arts." But for the past five years Lewis Webster Jones had presided effectively over Vermont's arty, progressive Bennington College, whose 300-odd girls favor sloppy blue jeans and custom-tailored curricula, and excel in the modern dance...
...this. Perhaps the greatest inadequacy lies in the division of international relations, where only a vast expansion in personnel and budget will equip the proposed regional government-studies project. Here the University has fallen into a secondary position while Columbia and Cornell have added this vital training to their curricula. Men who attempt to draw any sort of preparation for the Foreign Service or other overseas opportunities find this gap in their undergraduate studies a definite obstacle...
...feel that many students desire to hear some of the famous Harvard faculty outside the limitations of their own individual curricula," L. Magruder Passano '46 said last night in announcing the first of the weekly series. He added that "the lectures will be entirely serious in nature but will be sufficiently broad and elementary to be interesting to any one in the general college public...
Modern schooling makes him shudder. Curricula, for one thing, are much too cluttered. Argues Sir Richard: "Education prospers by exclusion. Overcrowding in education, as in housing, turns the school into an intellectual slum." He would have young students concentrate on two or three subjects as mental disciplines, and leave most history and literature for adults. The boy of 14 (school-leaving age of 80% of Britons) lacks the "experience of life" he needs to get the most out of these studies...
...summed up his condemnation of international failure in the Far East "we cannot, with any conscience, continue to prevent others from taking the very steps which we ourselves have taken. Placing the responsibility for what is happening is a minor problem. It lies perhaps with individuals, with school curricula that have almost wholly disregarded the Far East, or perhaps with a press that has failed to provide an objective basis for intelligent opinion on foreign policy...