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...almost thirty years Harvard's reputation as an innovator in undergraduate education has rested on the laurels won by the ground-breaking 1945 report, "General Education in a Free Society," informally known as the Redbook. When the report was published in 1946 it was hailed by the media as a "blueprint for education at all levels." The Redbook set out to suggest for the nation and to provide for the student at Harvard the core of knowledge "essential" for a "citizen in a free society" by requiring undergraduates to select a minimum number of courses fron a "General Education" curriculum...
Meanwhile the Redbook's pages have yellowed in local eyes as well. With the multiplying number of Gen Ed courses, the focus of the program has dissolved. Since the Gen Ed pages of the catalogue have come to provide a refuge for courses that do not fit into the neatly compartmentalized offerings of the departments, the program no longer possesses even the shreds of an underlying purpose and philosophy. What President Bok has called the "substantial disarray" of the University's undergraduate curriculum is a commonly voiced criticism. In light of Harvard's increasing financial restraints and the competition...
Other subjects scheduled to be discussed at the meeting include the creation of a "Redbook Committee" to study the undergraduate curriculum and the structure of CHUL meetings with respect to its policy on the release of information reports to the public and to the press
...with the strong support of Norton Simon, who put it together. Soon after, Simon sold out his interest to devote himself to art collecting. Mahoney, now 49, took charge of a loose group of enterprises-Hunt-Wesson Foods, Canada Dry soft drinks, Johnnie Walker Scotch and other liquors, Redbook and McCall's magazines, David Susskind's television-production firm (Talent Associates) and even companies that manufacture tin cans...
...never seems to catch up with himself. Almost every letter has some kind of promise of going on the wagon, of settling down, of starting a literary project that will make him financially secure. He planned for a two volume medieval novel called Philippe., count of Darkness that Redbook was interested in serializing. Fitzgerald told Perkins to wait to publish his play The Vegetable until he had written two other plays to go with...