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Harvard is still groping to find a new social order to replace the "rickety institution" of individualistic liberalism which collapsed under the pressures of the student strike of 1969, Oscar Handlin, Carl F. Pforzheimer University Professor, said last night...
...lectures, announced by flat two weeks ago, got under way last Tuesday as Oscar Handlin. Pforzheimer University Professor, fielded questions from 25 seniors on the subject of "Riots" for 40 minutes. They continue tonight at 7:30 p.m. when Donald H. Fleming. Trumbull Professor of American History, similarly "prepares" students for a generals question they will answer in May on "Responses to Science and Technology." The eight hours clearly are not enough. Since the department's 1973 generals fiasco--when seven students failed both the written and oral parts of the examination--the senior faculty has almost certainly spent more...
Apparently the hard line taken by professors Handlin, Bernard Bailyn and David S. Landes against any change in general exams as now constituted has more support than the objections of professors such as Wallace T. MacCaffrey, Patrick L.R. Higonnet '58 and Giles Constable '50 that the senior faculty has a responsibility to take another look at generals and prevent another 1973 from recurring...
...Handlin said he did not feel the history department has failed in the past to provide students with adequate preparation for the general exam...
...Handlin also said he believed the seven students who failed the exam in 1973 did so due to their own inability rather than to any deficiency in the department's curriculum...