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Some of Gemini's pictures of East Africa and the Middle East gave geologists a broad overview of rift-valley systems produced by faulting in the earth's crust. Other pictures, each encompassing hundreds of square miles, will be useful to oceanographers studying ocean depths, underwater formations and ice floes. By taking selective color shots, Gemini did far better than the Tiros weather satellites, which photograph indiscriminately and only in black and white...
...Social Sciences and Humanities, however, general education means more than training in methodology or style of thought. What it does mean no one has yet been able to specify. Some Soc Sci and Hum courses present a cross-departmental overview of an area. Others treat important topics that do not fall clearly in any department. Still others use the Gen Ed rubric to introduce the student to the great men and books of Western Civilization. They all, however, share a common purpose: to interest the beginning student in broad academic topics that are in that area, central to the understanding...
...some of his local fellow Rotarians, the school has thus far organized three floating semesters, and is planning a fourth, beginning next October. Courses include the standard liberal arts and sciences, plus "Advanced Fundamental Skills," which teaches "swimming, dancing, weight training, judo, wrestling, fencing," and Course 300, a "historical overview of the European origin of sports, games and gymnastics." The daily schedule of five hours of classwork had its problems. "You'd be writing an exam, and your chair would be sliding across the deck," says Roberta Mount, 18, of Hayward, Calif...
...Christmas some of us come to know our courses for the first time. Abstract catalogue titles suddenly turn into hard-headed realities of lecture notes and reading lists. The rest of us take a fresh look at what we have been doing since September, able to develop a critical overview once details are carefully mastered. January is a time for "putting courses together"--for discovering trends and relationships, for coaxing order out of natural chaos, for memorizing insights gleaned from prefaces and outside reading. Reading and exam periods can be the epitome--or even the entirety--of a Harvard education...
...Rand's overview of life around the square is credible, it took Gent magazine to really probe beneath the surface, to discover the hidden sources of this "strange magnetism." Foreign observers often have the deepest insights into a society--it took a De Tocqueville to see the real United States, a Halevy to see the real England, and it took Gent magazine to see the real Harvard...