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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock: For the enthusiastic medievalist Professors Deknatel and Gaehde will survey art (Fine Arts 140), from the catacombs to Chartres in the Fogg Small Lecture Room. Professor Owen brings England from Peterloo to present lingering over the Victorian ripeness. His history 142b will be held in Longfellow Alumnae Room. Time editor Louis Kronenberger, also Soohie Tucker Professor at Brandeis, will discuss, in English 165, comic drama in Emerson...
...have had to participate in a reorganization of Harvard College" under Dean Bundy's leadership. "I am happy that I am to continue in a less central position in these developments," he concluded, "where I hope I may continue to enjoy the friendship, patience, and help of my present colleagues and the staff of University Hall to whom I owe so much...
...scholarly specialization. Certainly such pressure is not out of place in a university community. Every generation needs competent and inspired teachers, and every generation of teachers sees insits students the raw material of its successors. But one can seriously question whether the emphasis on academic pre-professionalism which at present characterizes the College is, in fact, a proper one. To the contrary, it is possible to suggest that this emphasis may work to the exclusion of other equally worth-while aims and is therefore detrimental...
...Harvard's present emphasis on scholastics does neglect or produce neglect of public activities. The men who should be attracted to extracurricular participation in the political clubs or the publications are in increasing measure lost to these activities because of the demands of the curriculum. It is argued that the non-academic societies do not draw the best people because their standards are not as high as those of the scholarly community. But this is a circular argument: if the "brightest" students were able to give more of their time to outside interests, extracurricular standards of performance would obviously rise...
Under the present circumstances, however, it is impossible for these students to give much of their time to anything beyond scholarship. Inevitably, and probably unintentionally, Harvard has created a community dominated by the academic ethic. The pressure for admissions, the mandatory Honors program without a respectable alternative in non-Honors, the increased course and departmental requirements, the emphasis which graduate schools place on good undergraduate grades, and the scholarly mystique of the University all add up to a trend towards over-academization and against a truly liberal education...