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General Education has ceased to function effectively. The framework set up for it in 1945 by the Harvard Committee's report, General Education in A Free Society [The Redbook], and modified in 1965 by the Doty Report, is no longer suited to existing intellectual, social and institutional conditions. No longer does General Education serve as the fundamental core curriculum that was originally intended. The broadly-based intellectual and "cultural experience that was available to students particularly freshmen and sophomores, twenty years ago is gone. And instead of being replaced by, an updated system adapted to the universally changing conditions (rising...
...Masters and Johnson have produced a nontechnical book that they expect to clear their name: The Pleasure Bond (Little, Brown; $8.95), written by Robert J. Levin, an editor of Redbook, from taped interviews with the researchers and taped seminars that they conducted in 1971 and 1972. For Virginia Johnson, Masters' wife since 1971, the book is a decade late: she wanted to write about the human problems of sex in the 1960s, but her doctor-husband insisted that they establish professional credentials by writing up their lab experiments first. Now, at last, she says, "I hope the whole mechanical...
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...study will re-examine and improve the quality of undergraduate education, and could take on the dimensions of the "redbook" committee of the 1940s which formulated the present General Education system...
...Redbook Committee, as it has is known, is not off the ground yet, but it has clearly become Rosovsky's pet project. He plans to work on it all summer and, with his lightened duties, next year as well. If all goes as planned, the committee's work will be what Rosovsky's deanship will be remembered for after budgetary hassles and organizational problems and new calendars are long forgotten...