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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the bureaucratic obstinacy which so often characterizes the mechanics of Harvard's educational process, occasionally a new and sensible idea gropes its way to realization. One of these reassuring incidents is the decision to replace final examinations in English 163 and Comp Lit 166 with lengthy reading papers...
Examinations, unforunately, too often become opportunities for the spewing out of hastily-organized and impermanent knowledge. But the new regime, too, has its weaknesses. It is conceivable that a student will do none of the course reading until he finds out what the paper topic is and then read only what he considers necessary for the paper. Thus the methodical, diligent student would be penalized and the crafty fraud unjustly rewarded. But professors who make sure that the topics they assign are broad enough to require completion of a majority of the required reading can insure that academic virtue...
...often that a Broadway play elicits raves from all the New York daily newspaper critics. But this is what happened to Archibald MacLeish's J.B. when the strike-bound reviewers were finally able to make their verdicts known after the December 11 opening at the ANTA Theatre...
Time, conceding it to be "an effort of a sort and size rare in today's U.S. theatre," opined that it "has an often stunning theatricality, notably in the first half," but that the second half "rather lacks a strong pulse" and ends on a note that is "unsatisfying... because it lacks dramatic truth...
...close examination will not bear out the belief that professors here must write a great number of books before they gain tenure, Pusey said. Men are often promoted on the basis of skill in teaching rather than amount of publication, he added...