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...Geography department at Harvard have been explained before. In addition to fact that many Federal and international organizations call for trained geographers to help straighten out their problems, the field was one of the first divisions of the University to adopt the principles of general education, even before the GE program was born. Geography, as its friends claim, may still be the best vehicle for teaching the social sciences...
...GE, a course called Humanism in the West will replace Professor I. A. Richard's old Humanities 1, and another elementary Humanities course has been added. Social Sciences 1, which replaces History 1, will cover all Western tradition instead of just five periods...
...GE Upperclass courses have been added in Language and in The Sprit of the Renaissance...
...University-College balance is partially at fault, the faculty members have to devote too much time to their specialty and not enough to the undergraduates. If this is correct, perhaps the Administration could insist that all Faculty members devote more of their working hours to the College, as GE instructors already do. Perhaps also the Administration should consider a man's ability to teach as well as to publish when it makes promotions and appointments. And if Faculty members would read the Poskanzer Report and consider the great desire of undergraduates to receive more stimulation from the front...
Second, giving of examinations that "probe for knowledge, not . . . pry for lack of it." The report commends GE instructors who announce a list of key problems to be thought over before the examination. Although this method would not work in all fields, some courses could make use of it as soon as this June as a first step toward a more constructive system of studying and grading...