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...that, rather than the survey-like exposure to the high points of Western tradition which the Redbook proposed, the focus of General Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences should be upon "an acquaintance with themes." More than anything else, this is a recognition and acceptance of what elementary Hum's and Soc Sci's are now doing...
Also running under Harvard aegis was Erich W. Segal '58, former Hum 2 section man and now a resident tutor in Dunster House. His time was 2:56.30, which only three years ago would have won a medal. Segal runs this race every year...
...aspirations that accompanied African independence were great indeed and, to an extent, some of them have been realized. From Dakar to Dar es Salaam, gleaming office buildings rise where rust-roofed shantytowns once stood. Hydroelectric dams now hum where only the crocodile hunter passed ten years ago. Africans who a short time ago ran drugstores or taught elementary school debate eloquently with their former colonial rulers in the United Nations, or struggle manfully with the problems of nonalignment in a world increasingly complicated by shifts of temperature in the cold...
...placing them on the list of courses satisfying the lower-level Gen Ed requirement is a certification either that Hum 6 and Soc Sci 8 are sufficient to impart an understanding of a student's cultural heritage and the development of Western political institutions or else that such an understanding is not really very important, in which case it becomes rather difficult to defend the lower-level Gen Ed requirement...
...Hum or Soc Sci, the lecturer talked about a book, a writer, or an idea, and, when he was finished, his students were expected to know about the book, the writer, or the idea. But, according to the Redbook, a physics professor lectured on elementary particles, and, when he was finished, his class was supposed to understand "the scientific enterprise." Understandably then, critics of the Nat Sci program have been divided into those who wanted courses which taught about science as a discipline and those who wanted the undergraduate to learn more about the elementary particles and less about...