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...Doty Committee, in sum, has abandoned the Messianic preoccupation with "universal" General Education and narrowed its attention to-everyday problems at Harvard. The theme of its final report will surely not be, as a distinguished reviewer once said of the Redbook, that "Harvard Wants to Join America" but rather that "Harvard Wants to Mind Its Own Business." Instead of saving Western Democracy the Doty Committee has a more modest aim: the preservation of Harvard College and the cultivation of a new, more-up-to-date version of the liberally educated...
...friction between Harvard College and Harvard University was a major concern of the Redbook, a concern, which might have been the dominant one had the war not intervened. In the late Thirties Harvard students and faculty were expressing increasing dissatisfaction with the role of "specialism" in the College. Several Student Council reports which were later endorsed by the Dean of the College deplored the effects of the free elective system which had been introduced by President Eliot in the latter half of the nineteenth century to initiate Harvard into the research activities of the German universities. As the importance...
...applied his genius, skill and longevity to the ask of robbing American youth of their cultural heritage." Similar sentiments could be heard at Harvard when the war broke out and gave an urgent tone to the criticism of Germanic specialism. But though the war influenced the tone of the Redbook, it had nothing to do with the writers' faith in a liberal education, in the value of a purely collegiate educational experience. The great gift of the 1945 committee to Harvard, then, was not its missionary zeal but its establishment of a program for perpetuating instruction in the non-professional...
Such proposals--and none are yet anything more than tentative-reflect the collapse of the philosophy of General Education. The Redbook program had a coherence suggested by its title. By General Education in a Free Society it meant education for citizenship, or leadership, as the case might be. It accordingly stressed those goals which most fit customary ideas about the operation of democracy. Since constitutional democracy is based on acceptance of common principle and traditions, Gen Ed was designed to incucate a sense of Western values and heritage. Since democracy operates through discussion, Gen Ed was asked to develop...
...College in its dealings with the departments, or at the very least to enable the College to coax from the departments a new pledge of loyalty. For it is still an open question whether a four-year college "experience" makes any sense.JOHN H. FINLEY, JR., co-author of the Redbook and a member of the Doty Committee, has the longest record of service in General Education. As Chairman of the Faculty Gen Ed Committee, he is responsible for recruiting teachers for new courses. In addition, he teaches in Hum 2 ("Epic and Drama") and Hum 3 ("The Experience...