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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been pointed out too that a women's college may be more useful to the graduate in helping her secure a job after graduation. There is often the feeling that a coeducational school would be more anxious to secure the top-notch positions for its male graduates...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: Co-Education at Harvard | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...former Director, Professor Albert M. Friend, and Professor Milton V. Anastos. These gentlemen, supplied with funds from the Bliss endowment, spent a great deal of time and effort on obtaining as much source material as possible for the institution. As such material is not only rare but obscure, cablegrams often had to be dispatched to European dealers in order to save various documents from the grasp of other Byzantinists...

Author: By Alfred Friendly, | Title: Dumbarton Oaks | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...scarcely surpassed in the University and they are usually very well taught. But some people wonder if they do not try to do too much, to read too many books. Except Humanities 6, the lower-level Humanities courses read no fewer than eleven great books in a year, and often quite a few more...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: General Education: Its Qualified Success | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...better than lectures, but they unwittingly assume that all discussions will be as good as the best ones. This cannot be, and a bad discussion is probably worse than a bad lecture, for one cannot read a good book in a bad section meeting, and (his) attendance is often enforced by punitive quizzes...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: General Education: Its Qualified Success | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

...life which is contagious, a way of thinking and feeling which will occasionally rub off if there is sufficient enforced exposure, and that in some mysterious way people will be the better for acquiring this habit. At least this seems to be the theory behind both the maze of often contradictory demands made upon Harvard undergraduates, and the claims made by administrators...

Author: By Christopher Jencks, | Title: Molding a Man Through 'Liberal' Education | 6/13/1957 | See Source »

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