Word: interring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always insists that he will remain a Republican "at this time." But a man deluged by snowstorms and garbage strikes, the sooty malaise of New York winters, must sometimes dream. As President, after all, Lindsay could savor the sheer noblesse oblige of naming Rockefeller to be Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs...
Nevertheless, some interesting ideas remained buried in the curriculum. One was the University Course. Another was inter-departmental concentration. Some of these fields (Applied Mathematics, and Molecular Biology) were not novel, at least by Harvard standards. But others were truly interdisciplinary, like Ancient Civilization or International Relations, and offered the possibility of release from the established concerns of traditional departments. A third idea was independent study, which was authorized for all students, including freshmen. Students who had "demonstrated ability to profit" from independent work could take two courses each term in this manner...
...which, as for most things, we have a different term at Harvard). Clearly we have effected in the last few years a liberalization of many of the constraints in what used to be a rather rigid structure of undergraduate studies. There are not only more departments, there are also inter-departmental programs; there is independent study for credit; there are some creative courses and some virtually student-taught courses. Through all the innovations, however, the concept of departmental concentration has not been seriously challenged, and now, particularly since we have been invited by the Dean to examine critically the present...