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This acceptance has been encouraging to the administrators of the program, but it has magnified one of the basic problems of General Education. Now, on the tenth anniversary of the "sacred redbook"--the report of the Committee on General Education in a Free Society--and as Kenneth B. Murdock '16 takes over the chairmanship of the effective Committee on General Education, the problem again becomes significant: how to maintain the faculty's initial interest in the experiment, both for the benefit of General Education and for the general curiculum...
...child, who by his simple existence provokes the grins and gentle pats of his relatives. Rather, the new child has grown into a gangling adolescent, whose existence is no longer marveled at, and whose presence is taken almost for granted. Herein lies the broad problem facing the newly-appointed Murdock, and his staff. The experimental novelty of the General Education program is gone; the need for spirited teaching and imaginatively-conceived courses...
President Pusey asserts that "my interest is that the entire faculty continues its awareness and sense of responsibility for General Education. It should not have to become the property of the small group of faculty members who love it." His selection of Murdock to succeed Philip J. Rhinelander '29 is then both a logical and reassuring...
...Murdock is a former Dean of the Faculty and English professor--an "elder statesman" of the College as holds the respect necessary to induce men to teach General Education courses, and both the academic and administrative back-ground to make the program work smoothly. Further, selection of a man of his stature reflects deep interest on the part of the administration...
Professor Murdock, chairman of the Committee on General Education, suggested Tuesday that a student could always wait until his sophomore year to take a course that he wanted. Much more appropriate was the remark made yesterday by a lecturer in the Social Sciences, who observed that "if you have enrollment limits you've got to have disappointed freshmen." One obvious step toward improving the situation for next year, then, is simply to expand or remove the limits on several of the lower-level General Education courses. There is really no reason why courses like Social Sciences 2 and 4, which...