Word: generally
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...indifference, for it assumes a prior judgment; it rests on an implied assumption that Catholicism is by nature phony; that Catholicism is patronizing, and assumes the air of a father who won't tell the child there is no Santa Claus. Catholics are certainly not despised, but in general they are respected only despite their Catholicism...
Together with the honors tutorial program initiated last year for juniors, the new seminar system represents the University's most promising educational development since the advent of General Education more than a decade ago. Both last year's and this year's innovations move Harvard education beyond the predominant, formal course system, which can often stunt intellectual interest by Procrustean requirements...
...General unanimity seems to exist that Harvard is secular, despite its Protestant Divinity School. Harvard's present secularist position, though, represents the end product of a long evolution, and the vestiges of earlier evidences of a sectarian and religious past have sometimes caused friction...
...lecture and course system will remain the basis of the curriculum. Lectures have some great advantages; the principal one is that they present the "great men" of the faculty to a large number of undergraduates. A diet of lectures alone, however, can lead to intellectual sluggishness. Freshmen have had General Education A to give them the experience of a discussion course, but the majority of Gen. Ed. A classes (the honors sections are notable exceptions) can prove puerile and stultifying...
Freshmen will find this conflict between surveying and specializing omnipresent throughout the University. The idea of general education, of grounding the student in certain fundamental problems of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences is basically a healthy one; and the seminar program should attempt to remedy the deficiences in method rather than change the basic objectives of the general education system. The goal of general education--to have an idea of the forest as well as the trees, to pursue a concentration and view it in the perspective of the fundamental areas of learning--is a valid...