Word: generale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the younger Weld was in the same year expelled from the College on two counts of local burglary, and his departure solemnized by a personal whipping from President Dunster, no successor to the scholarship was designated, and the gift became merged with general College funds...
...unsuccessful priest named Brother Juniper comes with his niece Rosita to Santiago de Gante, a Mexican village devoid of faith. At first scorned by the populace, Juniper restores the Catholic Church by wresting the town's people's patron saint, a chrome-plated cowboy called Santiago, from the evil General Braga, who runs a resort for the "canape-eaters" where a monastery once stood. Rosita, meanwhile, falls in love with Pepe, the local atheist, and accepts him when he finally sees the light...
...even in a comedy there is room for gravity and beauty. Juniper holds a telling debate with Pepe about the nature of religion that would do some theologians proud. And when Juniper says, in reply to the General's scornful question, "What miracles have you seen?" that he has "seen the bright day follow the darkest night... I have seen individual acts of courage that redeemed the cowardice of nations." the entire audience is hushed...
Discarding President Eliot's system of free electives, he began the present program of concentration and distribution, tutorial, and general examinations. He fought for the House system and the construction of the first seven Houses. He championed the British tradition of College Fellows until the University was convinced of its merit, and then, when the plan for Harvard House Fellows languished for lack of money, quietly supplied $1.5 million of his own to endow the program permanently...
...remedy the situation, Lowell passed through the Governing Board a program for concentration and distribution which has become the basis of the present program in General Education. Beginning with the Class of 1914, the Administration required that six of the 16 courses for the degree be in a single field and six others spread among three different fields. This, they hoped, would force every student in the College to achieve Lowell's ideal of a scholar--"to know a little of everything and something well...