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...elder, with whom I spent a curious, concentrated week canvassing the freshman dormitories for political talent. We weren't too successful, if the truth be known, finding most of my classmates had their minds on P.T. credits and Gen Ed Ahf and the girl next door in Nat Sci 5 lab. Harvard seemed to be a pretty shrewd head, always bending just enough this way or that, always holding out just enough personal and academic freedom to keep people busy...
...elder, with whom I spent a curious, concentrated week canvassing the freshman dormitories for political talent. We weren't too successful, if the truth be known, finding most of my classmates had their minds on P.T. credits and Gen Ed Ahf and the girl next door in Nat Sci 5 lab. Harvard seemed to be a pretty shrewd head, always bending just enough this way or that, always holding out just enough personal and academic freedom to keep people busy...
Harvard's first experiment in Afro American studies--Soc Sci 5, a general education course on "the Afro American Experience" -- met strong criticism from black students in the course and from other Afro members. After one black freshman had argued with the course's instructor, Frank Freidel, during a lecture, Afro said it would prepare a formal critique of the course, including alternate reading lists and lecture suggestions. Freidel said that the course had been put together on short notice and was still in a flexible stage...
Martin Kilson, one of the designers of Soc Sci 5, entered the dispute over the new course. Kilson said that black students' criticism of Soc Sci 5 was "racially bigoted and disgustingly anti-intellectual." Afro members said that Kilson had "misinterpreted" their complaints; "we weren't objecting per se to the fact that white professors teach the course," one black student said...
...Committee on Educational Policy turned down a request by the staff of Soc Sci 125 asking that the grading requirement be removed from the course. CEP spokesmen said that "some measure of comparative performance" was necessary for certification of degrees...