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Relaxing enrollment restrictions for the first time this year. Gen Ed 105 rose from number ten last year to number two, attracting 522 students...
...sophomores from applying to "Evolutionary Biology;" Latham dropped some students who had not attended the first lectures of "The Astronomical Perspective;" Gould used a lottery; and Thomas J.C. Raymond, Professor of Business Administration, first rejected all freshmen, sophomores, and juniors, and then used a a lottery for seniors in Gen Ed 176, "Business in American Life...
...more recent times, media coverage has elevated the power and prestige of the harvard microphone making it appropriate for students of truly international significance. Perhaps the most famous example was Gen. George C. Marshall's 1947 pronouncement of the Marshall Plan, the U.S. contribution to the rebuilding of post-war Europe and a major first step in the Cold War. Few in attendance that year recognized the plan for what it was however. Mason Hammond 25, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Emeritus, who as the "caller" of the academic procession has attended Commencements regularly since before World...
General Education in a Free Society, a book which Finley co-authored in 1945, became the foundation for Harvard's famous distribution requirements system, and the "Gen Ed" plan for liberal education was immediately imitated by colleges across the country. Finley recalls that one impetus for this project was his fear that the expected post-World War II technology boom would eventually lead to an "evaporation" of interest in the social sciences and humanities. Calling the origin of Gen Ed "another great event," Finley points to one of the plan's earliest successes: Humanities 3, which he taught with Harry...
Last March, Guatemala held elections that were widely believed to be fraudulent, Gen. Anibal Guevara, Minister of Defense under Lucas Garcia, was chosen to lead the country. Rios Montt's coup a week later prevented Guevara from assuming power this summer...