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Because they did not learn enough in school, 300,000 young potential recruits each year flunk the armed forces' simple aptitude tests. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara partly blames civilian teachers who not only failed to impart knowledge, but sent students into "a mental fog of boredom, confusion and noncomprehension." He thinks that the stripped-down, highly functional, systems-analyzed teaching techniques of Defense Department schools can reach these kids, and he expects to "salvage" 100,000 of them a year...
...synchrotrons-devices that accelerate atomic particles by whirling them in a circular path-linear acceleration has several advantages. The beam is easier to control, more accessible for experimentation and bombards a target with more particles per second -increasing the probability of particle interaction. Even more important, circular accelerators cannot impart energies of more than about ten BEV to electrons which radiate away much of their energy when traveling in a circular path. Synchrotrons and other circular accelerators such as cyclotrons and betatrons are usually used to accelerate much heavier particles such as protons and deutrons...
...General Education program originally superseded a distribution scheme dictated by just this kind of logic. The Faculty apparently felt then that a Harvard education should impart more than a specialist's insights, that a student should be asked to step back from departmental studies and examine a broad area of knowledge from an interdepartmental viewpoint. Much of the Redbook philosophy has since been called into question, but the value of good General Education courses seems as great today as it did then. The Faculty reaffirmed the Gen Ed requirement by a two-on-one vote last spring and we hope...
While he barely looked his 31 years, slight (6 ft., 158 lbs.), dark-haired Bill Moyers managed somehow to impart just the right air of efficient normalcy. For the first time, the country and the world began to get an impression of the young man who is closest to the President...
Against this, it may be argued that a lower-level General Education course does not impart a body of knowledge, and does not require certain preparation, but allows students to study classical history, literature, and science, to study works that can be returned to with profit after any number of readings. If this were in fact the nature of the Gen Ed program, the proposed changes would be superflous--indeed, there never would have been any need to think of revising the program at all. Yet the General Education Committee has approved lower-level courses that by no means...