Word: redbook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Paul Buck's "Remembrance of Themes Past" is a case in point. Former Dean of the Faculty, Provost, and co-chairman of the Committee on General Education which produced the Redbook, he was an ardent warrior for improved undergraduate education in the forties and early fifties. But Buck the engaged combattant has become the retired soldier wistfully retelling the pasts' battles. He concludes by saying "I believe that a truly liberal education for today and tomorrow will combine a program of general education, a program of specialism [departmental education], and a collegiate way of living [a house system...
...believe all and any political action on the part of RGA to be inappropriate. Every Radcliffe student is required to become a member of RGA and to pay annual dues. The purpose of RGA, according to its constitution (Article II, Section A; page 73 in Redbook), "... shall be to further the best interests of the College community. It shall govern in matters concerning student life and ... shall have authority to establish and enforce social and other regulations. It shall ... provide a forum for the discussion of College affairs." RGA is thus intended and stipulated to operate within the College only...
Author of much of the Doty Report, Finley expressed surprise that the Faculty was even considering abolition of the Gen Ed requirement. "We on the Doty Committee forgot about the whole generation of the Faculty that can't remember how bad things were before the Redbook," he said...
Finley admitted that times have changed radically since the Redbook was written. "We thought than that there was a core of knowledge everyone should share." Now, no one can agree on what to include in the core, but the concept of should knowledge is not outdated, he insisted. "The various Gen Ed courses still represent different angles of approach to certain common topics. Students compare and mix these angles in conversation. The great 'chamber of sharing' is no longer the lecture hall, but the dining hall, but at least sharing takes place," Finley declared...
Delighted by the publicity but somewhat astonished by the protest. Redbook nevertheless stuck to its position. "We are edited solely for the women in the 18-to-34 age group," insisted Advertising Director Arthur Stein, himself a superannuated 52. "If we had some way to tell them to go away and stop reading the magazine after that, we would do it." With these blunt words, Redbook Editor Robert Stein, 40, and no kin to Arthur, expressed full agreement. While Adman Stein is straightforwardly encouraging older readers to take it on the lam, Editor Stein says he is taking a subtler...