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...April 26 you printed a full page article by Carla Williams about the Mason Programme in the Kennedy School titled "Training Tomorrow's Third World Leaders...
...article strikes me as unfortunate on two scores. First, it shows the distortions that can result from anecdotal reporting. There are about fifty Mason Fellows this year. They are a diverse group and can be expected to have a range of reactions to their Harvard experience, including the field trip to Morocco, which was the starting point of the article. Four times in the first two columns, the author made the same point--that some Fellows had questions about the value of the trip. By the time you read it the fourth time, you feel that it must represent...
...more basic, the article does eventually raise important questions about course content and program relevance. But by the time you get there, you are so conditioned by a stream of criticisms that the overall image of the reader is bound to be negative. This is too bad. The Mason Program, in formal and informal evaluations, has received consistently high marks over the years. Costs are high and so is quality. The program is an eminent success by the triple criteria of Fellows getting their degrees in individually tailored selection of courses, returning to their countries to a life of public...
...have known the Mason Program for most of its 27 years, both at Harvard and in developing countries of Africa and Asia. It is well conceived, extremely well managed, and consistently praised by its graduates. It is one of Harvard's most successful efforts to involve the University in the concerns of the developing countries. It deserves far better and more balanced reporting than this search for negatives. Richard Hook Research Associate Harvard Institute for International Development...
There is no question that the Mason Program will continue. Next year's class will stay at 50, Pyle says. But if Harvard is to have an effect on the Third World, some of the problems noticed by this year's Mason Fellows must still be addressed. "The question is not whether Harvard can afford to make room for Third World concerns," Devarajan says. "The question is whether it can afford not to. The problems of the Third World are there and are immense in magnitude. To some extent we all feel an obligation not to ignore those problems. Harvard...