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...Russian Research Center and Walker House of the Faculty of Education will definitely be displaced by the GE. building. The Administration is currently discussing new locations for the two. It is believed that the laboratory will oust only University-owned private dwellings on Oxford Street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 2 New Buildings To Replace Education Russian Centers | 11/8/1950 | See Source »

...core to which the Tech GE program will be tied is a random study of cultures, at six weeks per culture. The culture studies usually involve guest lecturers. Margaret Mead, for example, aided a study of south sea civilization. This sort of work goes on for two years; then the student can specialize for one and a half years after which he spends a last half year in synthesizing what he has absorbed...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: M.I.T. Succumbs to General Education Trend, Spends 25 Percent of Income on Humanities | 9/30/1950 | See Source »

Burchard also noted that the introduction of GE in earnest at M.I.T. this year apparently was popular with students of superior abilities. Less zealous or competent students tended to think of the Tech GE program as something that was chewing up their time while they were trying to become engineers...

Author: By Rudolph Kass, | Title: M.I.T. Succumbs to General Education Trend, Spends 25 Percent of Income on Humanities | 9/30/1950 | See Source »

...ge suburb, gendarmes tried to break up a strikers' meeting. When the strikers resisted, the gendarmes opened fire, killing three and wounding two, including the burgomaster, who was shot twice in the leg. Socialist strike headquarters began to organize a "workers' march" on Brussels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: Temporary Retreat | 8/7/1950 | See Source »

...General Education came to Harvard, it was a new idea for most undergraduates, but not all. Ever since the turn of the century, when it was founded by the late professor Barrett Wendell, the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature has quietly been practising its own brand of GE, which draws together two of the three fields of learning, and which stresses, as few other departments, the paramount general importance of a direct and personal tutorial training for all of its students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: History and Literature | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

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