Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regrettable complement at Harvard, for the General Education hope that a citizen might have some comprehension of the problems of science and scientists is balked here. The sciences thwart General Education, which is pointless if it cannot teach the three areas of knowledge on a roughly equal level. Scientists in the University rarely agree to give Gen Ed courses, and the notable exceptions, men like Kemble, Cohen, Nash, Holton, and LeCorbeillier are left to keep on teaching the courses year in and year...
Numbers tell part of the story. Compare the Gen Ed course offerings this year. Lower-level courses were spread about equally among the three areas, but second group courses were rare in the sciences...
Natural sciences: Five lower-level courses. Five second group half-courses, two of them limited by prerequisites to those who had studied much science...
Humanities: Six lower-level courses. One full course in the second group, and nine half-courses...
Social Sciences: Five lower-level courses. Three full courses in the second group, and six half-courses...