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...just this kind of logic. The Faculty apparently felt then that a Harvard education should impart more than a specialist's insights, that a student should be asked to step back from departmental studies and examine a broad area of knowledge from an interdepartmental viewpoint. Much of the Redbook philosophy has since been called into question, but the value of good General Education courses seems as great today as it did then. The Faculty reaffirmed the Gen Ed requirement by a two-on-one vote last spring and we hope it does so again today by defeating Professor Moise...
...plan as a whole we think a sound one. It may not stand a philosophical test, but it is not a philosophical document. It was derived not from first principles, but from Faculty votes, and its only philosophical base is the small part of the Redbook program left unchanged by voted statute or administrative convenience...
...Redbook, which contains the RGA constitution and Radcliffe's social rules, says only that the RGA "shall establish social and other rules and regulations," but that rules made by college officers "take precedence over legislation by the association...
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...
...much more important essay could have been written from the perspective of his extensive experience in the college examining the failure of the house system to establish a meaningful community and play a significant part in the student's education or the reasons for the discrepancy between the Redbook's ideals and the actual implementation of a Gen Ed program at Harvard...