Word: focused
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important, Gen Ed should show a student the place, in the whole field of knowledge, of his own specialty and make him aware of other specialties. The report also suggests that, rather than the survey-like exposure to the high points of Western tradition which the Redbook proposed, the focus of General Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences should be upon "an acquaintance with themes." More than anything else, this is a recognition and acceptance of what elementary Hum's and Soc Sci's are now doing...
...Yearbook pictures the rest of the visible part of Harvard College with the same lack of focus. The euphoric encyclopedism that informs its copy makes me wonder what brainrot plagues the folks at 52 Dunster Street...
...committee will also focus on the relation between the School of Education and society at large, and will discuss such problems as big city slums, de facto segregation, and automation, as they relate to education...
...Ottawa, Canada's capital, foreign correspondents are just about as rare as palm trees. There are only nine: one from Britain, five from Canada's next-door neighbor, the U.S.-and curiously, three from Russia. Why this heavy Soviet news focus on a government not regarded as of prime interest to Russian readers? If Ottawans wondered, last week Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson supplied an answer. He ordered one of Russia's three Ottawa-based newsmen expelled...
...Administration's traditional response to suggestions that additional area studies programs be established is that it takes a long time and a lot of money to set one up. Currently the University is expanding the Latin Amercan studies program; after that it is likely to focus on Africa. Although Dean Ford maintans that Harvard "certainly has no intention of freezing Indian studies out in the future," Indian studies still remain low on the priority list...