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...stepped through the pile. I bent down to pick up a book. What was it? Obviously, it was "General Education in a Free Society," intact but not looking as if it had been well-read here where society is not free and education is not general. Thought the GE committee or someone might be interested to know how far the Harvard influence extends. I dusted the book off, closed it respectfully, and with fond memory of Hartz's GE course on Democracy and Totalitarianism, replaced it on a shelf...
...distribution requirements are very similar to Harvard's, Wright don't yet seem to have made any particular innovations resembling the General Education program he nursed through its early stages while he was still here. A few courses of a general nature exist but they do not bear the GE tag. Smith has been making a drive for "integration" of studies in the final year and has instituted a tutorial-like program he calls 40B. While 40B works like tutorial in some departments, in other it is a seminar program, or merely involves writing a thesis...
Funds to finance the GE building will come from the unrestricted bequest, of Allston Burr '89, and the classroom structure will be named the Allston Burr Lecture Hall in his honor...
Provost Buck said yesterday that the GE building would not consume all of the Burr bequest, and that this use of the funds in no way affected the Varsity Club one way or the other. Estimated cost of the Varsity Club...
...Socialist Perrin's triumph some thoughtful folk professed to see a measure of Communist maneuvering. Joliot-Curie heads the nuclear chemistry laboratory at the College de France, and Perrin the experimental physics laboratory at the same institution. American visitors have reported remarkable goings-on at the Collège. Physicist Alexander Zucker of the Oak Ridge, Tenn. National Laboratory wrote in the current issue of Physics Today: "There is a Communist cell meeting every week . . . Laboratories in Paris are known by their political affiliations rather than by the work they do. Thus we have Clerical laboratories, Communist laboratories, Socialist...