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...wrong: My lower level Gen Ed courses were undoubtedly the best courses I have taken here. They were Hum 6, Nat Sci 5, and Soc Sci 2. They all taught a method, a discipline. They opened up new worlds. All of them blatantly ignored other people's conceptions of what should be taught in an introductory literature course, history or sociology course, biology course; and wound up by transcending these outworn labels. And each was the brainchild of a professor (and his disciples) who was teaching his personal idea all year long, and with much love. It's hard...
...gods--Hum I sounds like a disaster! Somehow the faculty has managed to combine all the worst features of Gen Ed courses without even a token inclusion of its virtues...
...take Hum 1. Highlights in the History of Man--all those books you really should read--glances at great thoughts--a page or two of Plato--and all those venerable professors filling through benevolently, like a bunch of pompous angels. It's just too much! The White Man's Burden is as immoral idea! History is not a row of statues...
...Hum 1 will be divided into several two or three week segments during which different professors will lecture on individual authors. In the first semester, lecturers will probably include Cedric H. Whitman '38, professor of Greek and Latin, on Homer; Finley on Sophocles; Wilbur M. Frohock, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, on Rabelais; Bullit on Cervantes; and Harry T. Levin '23, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, on Shakespeare...
Finley noted yesterday that Hum 1 "had everything but the kitchen stove in it. It's impossible to get people to take up the White Man's Burden" and teach lower-level Humanities courses alone, Finley explained, and therefore, the Committee had devised this "vaudeville performance." Nonetheless, he said he has great hopes for the new course...