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...Imam's proposal for relocating reading period shrewdly diagnoses the worst tendencies of Harvard's present lecture system. He explains why most sections are so deadly and why lectures are often a drowsy experience. But he fails, I think, to treat his own scheme with the same critical rigor he lets fall on the operating...
...seems extraordinarily optimistic to contend that students can do all the reading for three or four courses (on any level of superficiality) within three weeks. Most of us just don't read that quickly. Imam, himself, argues that keeping up with reading during the term takes so much of a student's time that he has none left for extracurricular life. Probably neither of these major contentions can be true; statistically they cannot both...
...Imam also wants to play student sloth both ways. Wouldn't the same tendency that keeps students from doing any reading during the term, keep them from going to lectures with the final exam already out of the way? And certainly those long papers would be postponed until the last moment, making late springtime every bit the academic grind...
...crucial argument Mr. Imam makes for his scheme is that it would make study and learning "circular" rather than "linear." For many non-science courses (Fine Arts, Ec. 1, Soc. Sci. 2) learning ought to be linear. As for the rest, it is not clear that a switch in the sequence of lectures and reading solves the problem. Students now miss significant points of lectures or forget them by the time they get to the reading. Under the new system they would miss the importance of much of the reading (save for bits they scurried back to reread after...
...Ravich '70 of Barnard Hall and Winthrop; Adele M. Rosen '70 of 58 Linnaean St. and Great Neck, N.Y.; and Thomas P. Southwick '71 of Weld Hall and Chevy Chase, Md., to the News Board; of Jack D. Burke Jr. '70 of Leverett House and Richmond, Va.; Salahuddin I. Imam '70 of Dunster House and Daica, Pakistan; and Peter A. Jaszi '68 of Dudley House and Chevy Chase, Md., to the Editorial Board; of Ronald H. Janis '70 of Kirkland House and Buffalo, N.Y., to the Photo Board; and of Kelly S. Barge '70 of Eliot House and Atlanta...