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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compulsory "liberal" education should be part of the Harvard curriculum. Concentration has long been a part of the College, not as a necessary evil, but a positive good; to make General Education the first step in the creation of a liberal arts college, or even a compromise with that end would be a radical and undesirable change. Rather, General Education should be what it was designed to be: a liberalized distribution program which recognizes that its participants will never study the areas of human knowledge in toto, and tries to impart a general understanding of them...
After a half hour of confused parliamentary wrangling, the Student Council last night postponed action on a "proposal to end the inequities in the Honors in General Studies program...
Although severely injured, Bull refused to bow out and received a standing ovation from the crowd at the end of the game for his display of pluck. "Pluck is my middle name," stated Bull after the contest...
...break upon the Scylla of a capella singing, intonation. The intra-chorus work was satisfactory, with the exception of several bewildering opening bars of various sections; but as each part went on, the chorus, depressed by a rather cowardly soprano section, sank lower and lower, and at the end of the second movement was grovelling around a third lower than was written, producing the weird impression of a record being played one speed too slowly...
Some students need "real incentive to get their teeth into course work," von Stade continued. Nothing that 11 of the 15 Freshman in Group 1 at the end of the first semester had not received Advanced Placement in any course, he suggested that Bruner's seminar program might be offered as a reward for achievement...