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...education. But the accelerating student at Harvard has no time to spend on courses that do not count for his degree. The standards of a liberal education must not be used to penalize those students who choose to prepare for military service, for they would only close on the non-scientist the last door to a technical military position...
...means of fulfilling the distribution requirement, chemistry has much to offer the non-scientist. It is probably the most fundamental of laboratory sciences, and, unlike physics, its principles are not obscured by intricate mathematics. Since its most important concepts are based on comparatively simple experiments, it is an ideal introduction to the scientific method of inductive analysis...
...more wisdom and not necessarily less knowledge. More specifically, however, I would criticize the suggestion that all laboratory work be abolished in the general science course. Although objection to the average elementary laboratory course is well founded, it does not follow that all such work is valueless for the non-scientist. On the contrary. I believe that the student can only arrive at a real appreciation of the scientific method by actually doing experiments himself. In well-conducted laboratory work, students do not know definitely enough what the results will be to spoil the experiment as such, and experience...