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...never knew. Like the distant married cousin of the deceased, this year's freshman class finds itself in the unenviable position of a captive audience at the funeral of Harvad's dissipated system of General Education. Death came last spring after a prolonged illness--some would say that Gen Ed, as it is popularly known, never had a chance after it was rushed into life in a fit of post-World War II educational innovation--but it will be four years before a new program takes over completely. Until then the class of '82 will have to meet...
...three areas--the two areas that were not related to his field of concentration. (An example, for the confused--in this case probably the majority: John decides to major in physics, which becomes his field of concentration. Because physics is a Natural Science, he must therefore take two Gen Ed courses in the Humanities, and another two in the Social Sciences. Easy? Oh, sure.) In addition, each student must ntake two further half-courses must cover higher-level material, and be offered by the respective departments instead of the Committee on Gen Ed. Further requirements, such as a foreign language...
...originally conceived, General Education was an attempt to give the student a general but still comprehensive intellectual background. Unfortunately, the system soon began to falter; as the number of Gen Ed courses multiplied, their relationship to the general, introductory goals of the program became more dubious. In recent years such courses as "The Films of Alfred Hitchcock" found their way into the Gen Ed listings -- while of undoubted intellectual merit (at least usually), they didn't quite seem designed to produce a class of Renaissance men and women. Moreover, certain other courses sprang up that appeared designed to accomodate...
After the dedication, which took place June 28, Lt. Gen. John W. Morris, chief of the Army Corps of Engineers, presented Casagrande with a commemorative plaque...
...inside of and on top of which roosted thousands of happy Argentines, waving their white-and-blue flags and shouting. From apartment houses on the side streets others surged to join the mob; hands reached down from trucks to pull them aboard. The primal baying rose in volume: "Ar-gen-ti-na!" The noise stopped some time on the decent side...