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...course closely resembling History 1 will be added to the three existing Social Sciences GE courses, Charles H. Taylor, professor of History and head of History 1a, said yesterday. The revisions are still incomplete, he added...
...well handled. Certainly the idea of teaching writing along lines useful in later life is a welcome change from the "What I Did This Summer" themes of English a. But this brings up problems which are going to have to be licked to make the program work out. The GE announcement implies that the course papers will be read for writing skill as well as context, and that the student who fails to meet basis standards will be required to take the corrective course: an eminently constructive approach and well in line with the whole idea of the program...
...Integrated into the new set-up will be a much stronger emphasis on writing for specific purposes, the type of writing that will be most valuable to people when they graduate. The familiar English A themes will give way to a string of medium-length papers in the basis GE courses, making the student's writing a tool to aid him in learning, not an educational obstacle to be overcome and forgotten...
...GE was devised to correct this fault, Wright said, "It is a conservation step along the lines started by distribution 40 years ago," and Harvard has been behind many other colleges in adopting...
...main distinction of Harvard's brand of GE is that "students are still allowed great freedom of choice," and the program makes provision for exceptions to the requirements...