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The Harvard Foundation will continue to sponsor culturally oriented programs which serve to improve racial understanding and harmony at Harvard. We invite all students to participate in our programs and events. The Harvard Foundation
This crisis-prone, autocracy-ridden area needs a model to emulate in the coming period of postwar reconstruction and realignment. Arab victors and vanquished alike will need in their midst an Islamic country that, whatever its faults, is a secular state with a democratic political system, a market- oriented economy...
Rather than forcing students to memorize large quantities of medical facts and spend hours each day in lecture, the "New Pathway" emphasizes problem-oriented learning, small group discussions, increased emphasis on patient-physician relationships and self-directed study.
The New Pathway is based on the philosophical premise that it is no longer possible for anyone to commit the entire body of medical knowledge to memory. Instead, the program takes a liberal arts-oriented approach to medicine by teaching students how to think critically.
"The program makes eminent sense," says Emilie H.S. Osborn '69, associate dean for student and academic affairs at the University of California at San Diego Medical School. "The problem is that all of the New Pathway is not quite new. Most medical schools have cut back on lecture learning." For...