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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such rationalizations soon found more substantial support, for Rumplestiltskin began to notice that Harvard's version of excellence was not exactly the same as that affirmed by many others. Indeed, he found, Harvard prized only a very peculiar sort of excellence...
...could not be denied that having dabbled in every age he was better prepared to discuss English Literature with his friends and to discourse learnedly about the Western tradition. The only difficulty here was that once freed from the Harvard influence he never discussed anything of the sort, and the things which had meaning to him alone were buried in this mass of external tradition...
...Harvard did not encourage this sort of thing. General Education was essentially not very different from other courses. Learning by doing meant that you confronted the problems which faced a discipline and looked at the discipline's techniques for solving them. The primary question was always the positive one, "What can this discipline do?" rather than the negative one, "What can it not do?" and perhaps this accounted for the sometimes incredible arrogance of educators...
...requirements did not end with General Education. There were others, sometimes more incredible than amusing, with which the University and the departments attempted to define a liberal education and suggest what sort of person Rumplestiltskin ought to become...
...seems particularly relevant to publish this sort of supplement at this time. The Program for Harvard College has announced an $82.5 million fund drive, which, if it reaches its goal, promises to provide well for the quantitative needs to the College. The Program is a bold venture, indeed a unique one, in American higher education. But complementary to the program for physical improvement, there must be an equally imaginative approach to the University's qualitative problems. Unfortunately, quantity comes easier than quality in education, and the problems of quality which face the University today are issues on which all--Faculty...