Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originally two bills were scheduled for hearing yesterday but the sponsors of H 1296, which would have set up a special commission to study and report on the extent of discrimination in the state, withdrew their suggested act in favor...
After 14 months of hundreds of hours of interviewing and thinking and writing by 52 members of a Special Committee on Education, the "Poskanzer Report" has arrived. The newest analysis of the current Harvard education is well worth the long wait. It represents in one neat package both the sentiments of a sizeable sampling of undergraduates and the synthesizing and creative thinking of an alert and acute committee which wanted to find out what was wrong or right with this education...
...readers will think the report perfect. Some will doubt the validity of certain statements or perhaps of entire chapters; others will think the committee has drifted out of the area of practicality; and still others will question whether all portions of the book represent a majority of the College...
Prepared by a 52-man group under the direction of David C. Poskanzer '50, the report was one year in the making, and has been studied for the past four months by Dean Bender's committee on advising...
...report's central thesis is that "Harvard education has failed to recognize or to assess the implications of the basic problem of teacher-centered versus student-oriented education. It is the difference between viewing a college as an institution in which teachers teach as opposed to one in which students learn...