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SOCIAL ANALYSIS 10. "Principles of Economics," has long been the most popular course at Harvard. But despite its popularity, this year the course has generated heated controversy that has led to the formation an ad hoc committee comprised of several of the course's section leaders. The committee recently made several recommendations for reorganizing the course to insure that its traditions of strong instruction and critical analysis continue unimpaired. We think their ideas are an appropriate and creative framework for administering a course noted for its large size and decentralized instruction...
...hoc committee of section leaders has made four suggestions. The first, and perhaps most important, is that the course should be governed by a committee of faculty members representing different viewpoints within the field of economics. This suggestion, while unorthodox, is uniquely suited to the problems of teaching Ec 10. It would contribute to the academic freedom of instructors and to the breadth and the depth of student's education in economics...
...MAJORITY VIEWPOINT and the ad hoc committee of section leaders for Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics," it supports are unconvincing in their attack on the right of Professor of Economics Martin S. Feldstein '61 to control his own course, and offer an unsatisfying alternative to the current system...
Last week, an ad-hoc committee of section leaders--including Mehrling and Stewart--called for fundamental changes in the course's organization. Saying that the reinstatment of radical sections alone would, not ensure balanced presentation of course materials, the group proposed "that the course be governed by a committee of faculty members, representing the different viewpoints and areas as far as possible...
...program sales pay for the rest. Money, though, is not the only contribution necessary for a smooth production: Lowell House members have to tolerate the reduced size of their dining hall for six weeks. But, Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59, whose residence has become the ad hoc backstage, points out, "We become intimately involved with the tradition this way. The opera pulls the House together...