Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alumni Exercises at 2 o'clock, George Rublee '90, President of the Alumni Association, will preside, and President Conant, Governor Bradford, and the honorary degree winners will give addresses. Last year's Exercises heard Secretary Marshall first expound his world-famous Plan for European recovery...
...biography explains the reasons and methods of the major changes that President Lowell brought about in the College. Chief of these were the concentration-distribution system, general examinations, tutorial, the reading period, and the House plan...
...educational system devised as a panacea for one philosophical group will almost certainly be challenged by others. Flaws can be found in any utopia, and educators would be among the quickest to look for them. Without urging the necessity and inevitability of every reform included in the plan, however, it may be possible to outline for non-scientific studies a utopian program which would answer some of the most damaging attacks made on the educational structure of the College as it stands...
...papers, stimulation, with discussions revolving around the assigned topics or perhaps around some of the papers themselves. Conference groups, like every other educational device, would need good faculty men to make them successful, and in this case men of a particular stimulating kind. Were the conference group plan instituted, however, there is no reason to doubt that the departments could in time develop able young men for the jobs, as they did when the tutorial program began...
What makes the plan utopian is in truth nothing more than that it is a plan. It would substitute for the haphazard standard of Harvard's instruction methods, allowed to exist by accident or whim or unfortified tradition, a policy. The policy would be a standard to which no course would have to conform but which would be there as a guide, a stimulus away from haphazardness and toward an ideal...