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Leon Masden, 19, of Shepherdsville, Ky., suffers from chronic glomerulonephritis. a severe kidney disease. Leon has lost 98% of his kidney function, suffers also from congestive heart failure, high blood pressure, anemia. His only chance of survival, say the doctors, is the transplant of a kidney from his healthy twin brother Leonard. Such transplants have been made successfully three times by surgeons at Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. (Use of an identical twin is necessary to avoid the risk of hostile antibodies developing in the recipient's system.) But in the case of the Masden boys...
Critics of the three-year program are numerous and vociferous. What will happen to the maturing process, they ask, if students are shuffled through college at such a rate? The nation has enough specialists and experts. Many feel it Harvard's function to produce leaders and inspire sound judment...
...light of the current debate on the function of the Ivy League colleges in the nation's educational panorama, this problem becomes all the more pressing. Solutions to time, money, and curriculum question-marks are needed now. Debate over the fundamental bases of education take on a real and urgent nature. The three-year college program is a controversial plan. But perhaps these proposals, by very virtue of their controversial nature, will at least air the questions, and revitalize our search for answers...
With these exceptions, the lower-level courses fulfill their function very well, for all but the exceptionally prepared freshmen who come to Harvard already generally educated in Western culture, ethical and political For a fairly large number from Eastern prep schools, these courses add little to the student's already generous background...
...conclusion, Goodhart stated the principles of the Law School which he felt should be more widely applied: that higher education should only be open to the most intelligent; that "knowledge and education are not synonymous terms"; and that the primary function of a University was to make students think for themselves...