Word: maye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coming from the dean of the College's office and not from a Faculty directive, the study is a one-sided proposal and carries no official weight, as does, for instance, the Fainsod report. Thus, after it is completed, Dean May must lobby for it within the Faculty, solely on the merits of the recommendations and the arguments in favor of them...
...attempt to unify these views may easily degenerate into a hodge-podge of compromising half-steps-manifested in a general report that comments on Harvard education but makes no recommendations, or a set of specific, yet conflicting proposals that follow no cohesive pattern...
Still, even if the curriculum discussions break down in confusion, the areas of concern which May has outlined are comprehensive and define the problems that Harvard education will eventually encounter in the next decade...
...Dean May proposed a complete re-examination of Harvard undergraduate education yesterday, calling on students and Faculty in Harvard Houses to develop specific recommendations for revising all aspects of the curriculum...
Comparing the study to a similar report on "General Education in a Free Society" in 1944, May said it was the first major re-examination of educational policy in 25 years and possibly equal in importance to curriculum revisions under Harvard Presidents Lowell and Eliot...