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...class brings to Harvard forces the college to offer General Education courses that differ in prerequisites as well as content. This is all the more reason for preserving a common element in science instruction. The strongly science-minded student will move directly into course work with a Department; the humanist may not look for a course to waken his scientific interest. Consequently science in the program is most important to freshmen who arrive uncommitted, and particularly for those who come from schools where science was neglected. Their General Education course may leave them unmoved; it can also be an important...
...fundamental trouble is that thinking about General Education continues to identify the science major's education with learning techniques, and the humanist's education with seeing science in the broad intellectual frame of reference. This attitude is almost inevitable in the face of difficulties on both sides: the undergraduate science major hasn't the time to see how his work fits into intellectual traditions, and the non-scientist has no ultimate use for technique. That is, strictures of time keep the scientists on their side of the divide, while strictures of value are more important to the non-scientist. This...
...called themselves Unitarians. Since about 1930, Unitarianism has tended to divide into two uneasily yoked branches: one seeks to preserve the church's past links with Protestantism, and asserts the fatherhood of God, the leadership of Jesus, and the hopeful march of mankind toward salvation; the other, the "humanist" branch, favors an ethical faith even more compatible with the world view of science. The Universalists, less influential than the Unitarians, were founded around 1770 by dissident Calvinists who rejected the idea of eternal punishment for unrepentant sinners, taught that all mankind would ultimately be saved. They have remained closer...
However, the 70-year-old humanist plans to continue teaching, and has commitments to lecture at M.I.T. next fall and at the University of Michigan next spring. He will continue work on a major book concerning the origins of American culture...
...gauge the humanist season in Russia in the spring of 1962, the editors sent in Correspondent James Bell, a Kansan who has reported for TIME for 17 years in Chicago, New York, Beirut, Hong Kong and Johannesburg, is now bureau chief in Bonn. Bell immediately found that it is much easier to see people than when he was last in Moscow in 1956, and that there is far less fear and red tape. He felt that he was not restricted in any way; the only slight hitch came when neither of his interpreters wanted to be seen talking...