Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of the General Education program provokes as much troubled thought as the natural science courses, for teaching science is essentially a different task from teaching humanities or social sciences. Science, even as introduced in a basic course, brings one to the edge of a study where physical intuition must give way to mathematical systems, where questions of reality are abandoned for models which "work"; in short the questions asked by science are fundamentally different from those posed by other disciplines...
...University must first ask itself: is science worth teaching to the non-scientist? The answer seems definitely yes. On the one hand, Harvard graduates are socially critical people, and trite though it may sound, a rudimentary knowledge of science helps provide insight in dealing with political and social issues which scientific developments continually thrust upon us. Just as important, however, is that Harvard's claim to turn out graduates with a modicum of education seems only justified if students are introduced to the basic approaches of science...
Joint tutorial groups will be established in the Fall, and as many Comstock students as possible will be assigned to Winthrop tutors. Girls will be eligible to join House societies, such as the Social Relations Club, the Science Society, the Economics Table, or the Senior Thesis Seminar...
Each delegation will represent a particular country which now belongs to the U.N. During the morning a model Security Council, Trusteeship Council, and Economic and Social Council will meet at P.B.H., and in the afternoon a model General Assembly will be held in New Lecture Hall...
...plans envision grouping concentrators in the five major fields--History, Government, Economics, Social Relations, and English--into small discussion groups. Both assume that the College has a responsibility to provide individualized instruction for all its students, not merely for its Honors candidates...