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...most intimately connected with the General Education program are, of course, aware of what has happened with it and in most case are not dissatisfied with the process. "We sacrifice the core concept," Professor John H. Finley, chairman of the Gen Ed Committee, explains, but in turn introduce courses which "characterize" the methodology of the overall area--Humanities, Social Sciences, or Natural Sciences--in which they...
...John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, also reported lack of interest in seminars. Claiming "it is not at all exciting to do paperwork for three or four fellows." Finley suggested two alternatives to the current "half-hearted" program...
...Overseers' Committee to visit Harvard College will be here Dec. 11 and 12, under the chairmanship of Albert L. Nickerson '32, who selected General Education as the topic last spring. They will talk with Finley, Paul H. Buck, who was Dean of the Faculty when the program was instituted, and with professors giving some of the big courses...
Discussing the upper-level Gen-Ed program, Finley emphasized that the requirements had been left purposefully loose to allow undergraduates to take several related courses in a field of secondary interest, rather than forcing them to choose between relatively isolated survey courses, as at the lower level. Nevertheless, he said, the University should offer more of the 100-series General Education surveys...
...third topic Finley predicted the Overseers' would investigate is a change in the way the Natural Sciences courses are approaching their material. Originally, he said, these courses examined the development of a science historically. But since the Bruner Report, the trend has been to take up a science in the analytic manner of a standard introductory course...