Word: prospectus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rosovsky Report envisioned that the undergraduate program would be a so-called "combined concentration." requiring work in both Afro-American Studies and another field, but when a tentative prospectus was issued in the second week of April, many black students objected to what they considered the unduly arduous requirements...
...worked out last spring in the New College meetings. Delivering it to you in a few quick paragraphs is as unfair as lecturing to students- you don't get any indication of the process by which we arrived at it. It is argued more persuasively, perhaps, in our prospectus. (A lengthy little document, now in its third revision, which practically no one at Harvard has ever seen because we've never typed it on stencils.) But you get the ideas...
...small, intense, cooperative groups. But we had to define them more clearly, at least to begin with, and we also had to define the function of the New College itself. Here are the provisional guidelines we eventually came up with (I've lifted them straight from the prospectus), along with explanations...
According to its Prospectus for next year, the New College will "discover and explore alternatives to the present system of undergraduate education." It plans to hold as many as 50 student-initiated groups next year, starting in September. It will also offer special colloquia on New College education for incoming freshmen during orientation week...
...foils. Santa Cruz Free University has a class entitled "Of Course We'll Like It," a forum that guarantees the uncritical acceptance of unpublished poems, unpurchased paintings and unaired songs. "Let's get together and take loving care of one another's ego," urges the course prospectus. It is hard to see how this will lead to better poems, paintings or songs. Self-indulgence could turn free universities into a travesty of education in which "rapping" replaces research, and reason gives way to sensuality...