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General Education courses offer a partial solution to the academic problems of the freshman. By remaining non-compulsory they stand on their merits--and they have succeeded on those merits. Strong University backing for the program has resulted in valuable experimentation on methods in the courses, as well as the gathering of an outstanding staff. The G.E. program is particularly valuable in the new general courses it can offer the freshman or non-concentrator, courses which have demonstrated the ability to stimulate interest in, for example, the principles of science, while old elementary science--or economies or government or history...
...lecture system is particularly weak when unaccompanied by other elements designed to unify the individual's education and to bring him into closer contact with the faculty. Further experiments with small section groups might lead to a partial fulfillment of this requirement, but the key to the problem, which is perhaps the most dangerous within the educational picture of Harvard today, still lies in tutorial...
Whatever the reasons, private industry had not met the nation's requirements in housing. But there was at least a partial solution in a program on which Harry Truman and Bob Taft could agree. It was the Taft-Ellender-Wagner bill, calling for U.S.-aided slum clearance, federal guarantees in the next year of up to $1.6 billion on private mortgage loans, and construction of 15 million dwellings in the next decade (500,000 in five years under federal public housing). The Senate had passed the bill. At week's end it was bottled up in Representative Jesse...
...British proposal on press freedom, and the partial draft of a U.N. Covenant on Human Rights, both of which permit penalties for "systematic diffusion" of false news endangering peace. The U.S. opposed both, thinking they went too far in the direction of state control of news. The Soviet bloc opposed them for not going far enough. (It also opposed the U.S. and French proposals...
...Russians will react to such a proposal," Meyer admitted, "but I do know that a third world war would be suicidal to all concerned and that we must formally make known our good faith. If the Soviet Union should turn down an invitation, other nations must form a partial federation on the condition that the door of entrance is left open--not as a final solution but as a step toward...