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...Harvard President James Bryant Conant, who told the story last week, the boy's philosophy is a justified kick in the pants for most U.S. educators. They have been so busy tailoring curriculums for the average and the least able that they have "largely neglected" the most able, i.e., the top 10% intellectually. One significant reflection of the neglect: fully half of the young people in the top 10% never get to college. This week the Educational Policies Commission issued a 100-page report, Education of the Gifted, supervised by Conant, with an analysis of the problem and recommendations...
...Harvard continues to believe in training men who will be sensitive, disciplined, and articulate, it would seem that the University cannot afford to neglect active, direct esthetic experience as a principal source for precisely such training. "Manual work" in liberal education makes as much sense as it does to those anxious to rescue culture from the talkers. The responsibility for encouraging student work in creative art and providing facilities should be accepted by the administration as part of an expanded program of general art education...
...Cummings, who refused to make concessions to ready intelligibility, hese poets seem genuinely to want to be understood. One of them, Harvard Scholar-Poet Richard Wilbur, writes, "I am sure that in all poets there is a deep need to communicate." Wilbur places part of the blame for the neglect of poetry on 'the laziness and uneasy pride of a half-educated and excessively comfortable middle class, whose intelligences have so long been flattered by all our great entertainment media that they cannot associate pleasure with effort . . ." There is undoubtedly much truth in Wilbur's observation; it would...
...shenanigans and incompetent bureaucrats. Last year, its able newshen Sara White wrote a series which helped reinstate Miriam Van Waters, a competent reformatory superintendent who had been fired for too progressive penal methods. Last week, Reporter White also won freedom for a pregnant mother of four children, imprisoned for neglect without having been given legal counsel. But neither the Traveler nor any other Boston paper printed the prison record of J. Joseph Connors, appointed an election commissioner in 1948 by Mayor James Curley, until more than a year after out-of-town publications carried the story. By & large, the Boston...
...news columns, with their listings of "affiliations" and almost total neglect of the non-political side of his life, have been scarcely better...