Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...illustrate the precision and experiment which characterize the approach of many sciences. Most Gen Ed courses now try for this effect through demonstration sections and problem sets, notably inadequate tools. If the lab space could be made available laboratory work might improve all the lower-level Nat Sci courses which to not require it. This could happen only if the method were carefully though out. The endless lab writeup of the Physics 1 variety should be avoided, but a good lab would add some of the rigor which many scientists feel the program now lacks...
More radical is another solution, proposed by a high administrator. He suggests that the science concentrator's exemption from a lower-level Natural Science course be discontinued. He contends that if the scientists had to teach their own students in these courses, they would take a greater interest in them and in General Education as a whole...
...course or courses, or by some other means, modern civilization requires a man to have an understanding of some of the greater problems of the sciences that may bring his destruction, and a satisfactory means of providing it in Harvard College must be found. The lower-level offering is now adequate, but impending retirements may threaten it soon. The upper-level courses are insufficient...
...depth of the lower-level Humanities and Social Sciences is one problem. These courses have undeniable impact, for their reading lists are scarcely surpassed in the University and they are usually very well taught. But some people wonder if they do not try to do too much, to read too many books. Except Humanities 6, the lower-level Humanities courses read no fewer than eleven great books in a year, and often quite a few more...
With these exceptions, the lower-level courses fulfill their function very well, for all but the exceptionally prepared freshmen who come to Harvard already generally educated in Western culture, ethical and political For a fairly large number from Eastern prep schools, these courses add little to the student's already generous background...