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Freshmen entering Harvard next fall will be required to take one GE course during their first two years in College, while members of the Class of 1954 will be expected to take two GE courses in the same period. In both cases, courses in General Education will count toward the distribution requirements...
Again, the critics may say that students can get all the benefits of GE under the present arrangement; but at least an element of compulsion is necessary to protect department teachers from having to compete with the broader aims of he Committee. To organize the system too far might produce, as is the case in other school, "a lesser breed without the law," a general education faculty looked on disdainfully by their colleagues of the departments. Today's proposal guarantees the continuance of high-level instruction obtained by staffing GE from regular Faculty rolls...
...Committee does not advocate complete adoption of GE immediately, Wright stated. Instead, a two-year "adjustment period" is recommended...
Beginning with the Class of 1955, the Committee recommends that the full program take effect. Every undergraduate will then be required to take at least three GE courses, one each in Humanities, Natural, and Social Sciences, before the end of his sophomore year. (The "sections" of the present distribution program would be eliminated...
...addition, three more distribution courses will be required, chosen either from second group GE course or from a list of approximately 70 courses given by the various departments and approved for distribution by the Committee on General Education...