Word: reportedly
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...Education intended it to fulfill two purposes: to combat academic specialization and to provide students with the cultural foundations for life in American society. But changes in the academic and social environment have made these goals appear in a very different light. The title of that committee's 1945 report, "General Education in a Free Society," immediately conjures up the specter of the Fascist society that America had just helped defeat in war. When President Conant in 1936 called for an educational program that could resist the "wave of anti-intellectualism sweeping around the world," the purpose and the value...
...student Committee on Educational Policy took up the question of the academic context of General Education. Although the students expressed an ardent belief in the values of liberal education, they underlined the contradiction between the goals of the General Education program and the specialized departments, arguing in a report that the "college should be fundamentally interdisciplinary in its approach to education". The committee proposed a possible concentration in Gen Ed which would be designed by each student individually, and suggested the creation of interdisciplinary seminars and tutorials. Yet the Faculty never accepted the students' proposals...
...curriculum report will go to the printer this week and copies will be distributed within a week or ten days...
...anyone has any of these symptoms and wishes to share them with me, please cough into an envelope and send them to The Crimson, where our master lab technicians will isolate the offending germs and transfer them to me so that I can write a first-hand report on each new agent...
...draft report discusses what types of courses should be taught in each area and how many courses students should be required to take...