Word: generalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Legislation to enforce fair educational practices in Massachusetts' schools and colleges is unnecessary, unworkable, and "would put an intolerable burden on universities' admissions offices," Oscar M. Shaw '26, Counsel for the Corporation, told the General Court's Education Committee yesterday on behalf of Harvard University...
...then he says he has followed the regular order of things: instructor in 1942 and assistant professor in 1945, when he helped revise the curriculum of the Department. Emphasizing personal instruction, he is highly praised by his students for his interest and teaching ability. He now hopes for a General Education course which would stress student participation in music. Choral works from important periods would be sung by members of the course: Plainsong, Ars Nova, the Renaissance, Bach, Beethoven, and Stravinsky. In this way, the students would "get inside the music." Lectures would relate the compositions to the artistic philosophy...
...sighting the urgent need for a program of government scholarships, the report pointed out to the ten percent increase in general college tuition expected for the coming year. Since 1939, tuition has risen an average of 28 percent, the report added...
...area, however, the Committee possibly has called for a bit of needless fretting. "We feel," the report says, "that unless Administration is freed from its preoccupation with an incomplete program and comes to reconsider the more basic questions of personnel and of the incentives to actual learning, General Education may never become more than expensive half success...
...General Education: "It is our belief, however, that a serious deficiency in a Harvard Education is also a serious deficiency of the GE report; it is a failure to focus on method and on the problem of eliciting active student participation...