Word: historicized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In 1945, the "Redbook," General Education in a Free Society, defined a "general" education as one that was "shared" (students would take the same lower level courses) and "philosophical" (the content of the courses would be concerned with the historic themes of Western civilization). But in the last nineteen years...
Theortically, the means for gaining the education-in-breadth goal of Gen Ed range from "totalitarianism," a core system in which every Harvard student takes exactly the same basic courses, to complete laissezfaire, whereby a student is required only to take some courses outside his own field of concentration. In...
Later Udall writes Bernays, "You are certainly to be congratulated on your energetic efforts to alert your community," but in another letter says he cannot declare the riverbank a national historic site.
Feb. 1963: President Pusey and James R. Killian, Jr., Chairman of the board of M.I.T., meet privately with Governor Endicott Peabody '40 to discuss the Memorial Drive situation. The Governor remains non-committal. Edward L. Bernays, the spirited 72-year old dean of public relations and a leader in the...
Since Harvard is powerless to change this historic pattern, it is futile for it to attempt to train a "broad national elite." Instead, it should concentrate on what it can do best--training an academic elite.