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...make major statements, though, is less important than their feeling that such a statement is needed. Rosovsky and the committee members' mere perception of that need says several interesting things--that Harvard's problems are not unique to Harvard; that there is in fact some sort of national drift in undergraduate education; and that the American educational community is sufficiently unified and reverent of Harvard that a major directive from Cambridge would be listened to with utmost seriousness across the country...
...LETTER to the faculty on undergraduate education, which served as a prospectus and grand opening for the review, Rosovsky hinted a couple of times at what he sees as the present drift of American college education. The past decade, he wrote, has not been lacking in educational changes, but those changes often came about as a result of social and political, rather than academic, issues. The reforms produced were frequently of "a hurried and peicemeal character," and they brought about a rootless, drifting academy...
...rules that will make sense themselves. And that means a move away from great personal freedom for students, toward a more directed education. Asked about it this fall, Rosovsky said he couldn't speak for the review in general but that personally he has found the recent educational drift "worrisome." "I'm not in sympathy with the totally unformed undergraduate education that has developed over the last ten years," he said...
...with it, present inequalities will stay as bad as they are, or maybe intensify, and more people will go hungry. If more people go hungry, more people will be discontent, and if Bengalis take pleasure in ripping people apart in the street when they are discontent, Bangladesh may well drift from revolution to revolution, at the expense of a few unhappy bureaucrats and millions of people who could...
Died. Marshall Kay, 70, Columbia University geologist and early proponent of the theory of continental drift; in Englewood, N.J. Kay's reconstruction of continental movements in 1948 showed that the boundaries of North America were delineated over 400 million years ago by undersea volcanic upheaval. He also predicted that Japan would one day merge with the Asian mainland. An organizer of the 1967 Gander conference on continental drift, Kay was honored with the Geological Society of America's top award...