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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college committed to the precepts of general education, Harvard undergraduates often over-concentrate and over-specialize. This is not to say that any undergraduate completely masters his field during his four-year stay, but many are required to learn sections of their field which seem irrelevant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Combined Fields | 9/28/1957 | See Source »

...CRIMSON's remarks about ours seem particularly hasty. You make two points. First, that honors seniors cannot have tutorial with senior members of the faculty, as presumably they may in other fields; and second, that "most of the tutors are young instructors or graduate students and ... students are often assigned to a tutor with a different field of interest than their own." About the first point, members of the Committee have long ago expressed themselves as willing to tutor highly qualified seniors and every year several students avail themselves of this privilege. A check with other large departments suggests that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY AND LITERATURE | 9/28/1957 | See Source »

Hope Mourousas '58 and Janet C. Ross '58, co-editors of the News, explained that in a Radcliffe exam the supervisor merely administers the test and "often leaves the room, reads, or is otherwise engaged during the course of the final...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Radcliffe News' Editorial Attacks Exam Proctoring as Infringement | 9/28/1957 | See Source »

...advantages of retaining a group of respected ministers at Harvard were apparent. The monotony of chapel services, often complained of by the students, was largely done away with. Further, there would be no opening for charges of denominational prejudice...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Instruction in Religion: The Board of Preachers | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

Buttrick's responsibilities as Chairman of the Board of Preachers continue to be exacting, to say the least of it. He usually preaches at Memorial Church two Sundays out of three, is present at morning chapel and--as one of the nation's most widely-known preachers--is often called upon to come to churches and universities throughout the country...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: Instruction in Religion: The Board of Preachers | 9/27/1957 | See Source »

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