Word: eds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, said yesterday that University planners are discussing ways of developing 31,000 square feet of land on Church St. of which Harvard is a joint owner. He emphasized that plans have not yet passed beyond the "idea" stage, but one alternative calls for the construction of a new Ed School building on the site...
Such a building would in effect make Church St. an entrance to to the Ed School, which now lacks a real front door. Now on the property are the Church St. Garage and the Charles Warren Center for American History. The two contiguous buildings are separated from the Ed School by Farwell Place...
This project, too, is an experiment; as with his gen ed course, Holton is reluctant to issue mid-term progress reports. "We always want to leave open the option to say, at the end, that we failed," he says. "But I think we're on the right track." The new course, he says, tries to focus on "the basic and beautiful ideas of physics, to show why anybody -- I mean everybody -- should take them seriously...
...will have more than enough opportunity to develop new courses as the gen ed program moves into full operation. Holton, who was a member of the Doty Committee for a year, and was on sabbatical and didn't sign the report, is happy about the outcome of the two-year Faculty debate. "They got it right when they decided to let the ideology come after the courses. It makes sense, because, after all, you don't first decide what nature is and then impose a rigid pre-conception on your experiments...
Holton ,as vice-chairman of the Gen Ed Committee and head of the sub-committee on science, is optimistic about the future of the program. "It will help ensure the excellence of Harvard College education as well as Harvard departmental education. If there is not balance and interaction between these two, a college atrophies. Harvard must keep providing the tools for an education as well as for a trade." He notes that increasing numbers of Faculty members have already been induced by the system's flexibility to offer new courses...