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Another Law School faculty member, Mark DeWolfe Howe '18, professor of Law, stated that the lack of criticism perhaps appears greater than it is because people overlook that criticism which is expressed in class and implied in case books...
...have sometimes wondered whether the time to stop General Education has come," said Mark de Wolfe Howe last week. His query apparently reflects Faculty attitudes throughout the College, for several members of the General Education Committee have grave doubts that the Faculty would approve the program if asked to vote today...
...departments have learned the principle of General Education, I think the time to stop General Education has come," says Howe. Again, his attitude is a common one. Although one of the tenets of the old program was that no introductory course for concentrators could be really satisfactory for a non-concentrator, many people, including several members of the Committee, seem prepared to go back to the old departmental basis of distribution, largly because the present program lacks a constructive policy...
...seminars are directed toward far more specialized work than is normally done during the Freshman year, and are in direct opposition to the General Education program. "I feel that the fate of the General Education program depends a great deal on the fate of these other experiments," says Howe; "you can't have both...
...Princeton," Woodrow Wilson wrote half a century ago, "is a place to find a vocation, not learn one." The crisis in General Education is the test of Wilson's ideal at Harvard. If the program cannot survive, Harvard will lose its greatest claim to liberal education.MARK DE WOLFE HOWE...