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...scheme of a man's whole education. A university is equipped only to pursue the fundamental truths and no more--to attempt anything else is to cripple its prime purpose. Taking wisdom as the result of both intellectual training and experience, Dr. Hutchins insists, contrary to the existing curricula of most colleges, that the university can supply only the former. There is no substitute for experience; every business has its own idiosyncrasies, its own methods its own peculiarities. Universities today bow to every whim of corporations giving narrow, technical courses that really should be items of expense on the corporation...
Lashing the "intellectual anarchy" abroad in the world today, President Conant told the gathering that the liberal arts curricula of the universities have the mission of restoring education to its highest function...
...Department's unhappy position of financial rigidity. It is no simple task, for example, to attract brilliant assistants with a mere pittance. Neither is it easy to keep the tutorial system up to par at the same time that new lecture courses are being steadily added to the curricula, for the lecture system ranks first in importance at Harvard and there are no available funds for employing more tutors...
...promotions and expansion of the curricula in the Sociology Department, announced today, serve to emphasize the importance of this new division. Sociology is a relatively new social science, but it may, with accuracy, be regarded as the center of them all. Its close affiliations with government, economics, education, philosophy and history, its ramifications in the fields of psychology and biology--to mention but a few--only need to be recalled to recognize the importance of sociology. And in its own right it shows astonishing vitality; even at Harvard, under many handicaps, it has expanded and developed greatly. It is, nevertheless...
...Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Regional Planning are professions concerned with the arranging and shaping of materials. Not only are their objectives the same, but their basic processes are identical. It seems logical therefore, to include the fundamental preparation for all, in the curricula of one school...