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...make an atomic bomb and to use it at Hiroshima in 1945. As president of Harvard (1933-53), the self-effacing but stubborn Conant instituted a number of improvements that changed the character of higher education: he broadened the makeup of the student body, argued for a core curriculum of "general education" and promoted national scholarships. He left Harvard to become High Commissioner to Germany and subsequently the first Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1957, Conant conducted a wide-ranging study of American high schools, and later of junior high schools...
Members of the Educational Resources Group (ERG) debated yesterday whether to support the philosophy behind the restrictive nature of the core curriculum proposals released last week by Dean Rosovsky...
Welcome to the new Harvard. You never left high school. A 36-page core curriculum report released this week, the culmination of three and a half years of effort, recommends alterations to the present General Education program that would greatly restrict students' freedom to take the courses they want...
Several CUE members objected to the proposed elimination of pass-fail options and to the lack of departmental course alternatives. They called for student representation on proposed core curriculum committees, and recommended a rejection of the Expository Writing reforms outlined in the report...
Although the new core curriculum would totally transform general education at Harvard--leaving few facets of existing programs untouched--up to this point, the Faculty seems almost complacent about overhauling the curriculum...