Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This situation is aggravated by the fact that Social Science 1 has become more and more oriented towards history in the last few years. Professor Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History department comments, "I hardly see that Social Sciences 1 has anything of the Social Sciences in it. It's history...
Even among many who would like to see the General Education requirement eliminated, there is feeling in favor of the program. Professor Brower, who feels that the job can be done by the departments if they are carefully supervised, says of the committee, "It has fulfilled a function that nothing else has fulfilled--someplace where people think about what is happening to the average undergraduate...
...only for the program but for the College as a whole. Others of the Committee agree with him. They recall what happened at Chicago when two faculties were created: complete scism between general education and the rest of the curriculum. It is not a situation many people want to see duplicated at Harvard...
...foreign policy makers can charge the windmills of "public opinion." While Franklin Roosevelt advanced an unpopular foreign policy through major speeches (witness his "Quarantine the Aggressors" speech of 1937), future foreign policy-makers may hide behind the testimony of "experts," to give authority to innovation. It is encouraging to see that someone is interested in Red China recognition, but at the same time it is saddening to see that the arguments must be presented in such an oblique manner...
...above three items, all true, lead one to reconsider the warning of Mr. Eric Sevareid of CBS news last year, that perhaps we shouldn't rush off so quickly to see the other side of the moon. We're not ready, he said, because we don't yet known enough about the dark side of ourselves. Bearing in mind also the item from Ripley's Believe It Or Not that the Man in the Moon is upside down in South America, the Administration should give Servareid's idea serious consideration...