Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FACULTY of Arts and Sciences' overwhelming vote on May 2 to approve the much-publicized Core Curriculum program will alter the basic shape of the "Harvard education" for years to come, just as the General Education proposal did after its institution in the late '40s. While it is true that the Core will not affect the curriculum of anyone now in the College--a factor that probably accounted for the marginal student opposition the plan received all year--the Core will affect subsequent classes at least until the end of the century...
...Core in fact represents a disturbing move away from the cherished, traditional concept of a "liberal education." The plan's rigid requirements, minimally softed by two late amendments, simply do not allow students enough freedom to gain what they see as a balanced education...
Recent experience should not be forgotten. In the late '40s, with brokendown soldiers crowding the psychiatric wards of Veterans' Administration hospitals, psychosurgery's crude predecessor, lobotomy, became surgically fashionable as a means for quickly and efficiently pacifying violent veterans. Lobotomy, now in disrepute, involved the use of an instrument much like an ice pick to sever the connection between the frontal lobes of the brain. But while the technique generally pacified patients for a while, it also frequently left them with new and unpredictable mental disorders. The crest of enthusiasm for lobotomies left behind thousands of human tragedies...
Dale Peterson, a spokesman for the CIA, said yesterday the CIA has nominated two members with GS 18 rank--"about the highest rank there is below appointed ones" for participation in the program. He said the Kennedy School contacted the CIA late last year to ask them their views on the program, but he said the CIA had no part in running the program...
...tradition, recipients of honoraries must appear in person to receive their degrees. That requirement prevented then-President Harry S Truman, who preferred the June mugginess of Washington to the swelter of Cambridge, from picking up one of the sheepskins in the late '40s, and also kept General of the Army Douglas MacArthur degree-less during the Korean...