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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spring months of last year saw two sweeping statements on Harvard education--a report of a special Faculty committee recommending a new "area" plan of concentration, and a Student Council report advocating the introduction of five broad survey courses, to be compulsory. The first is slowly reaching the stage of reality, while the second, to the best of anyone's knowledge, is just gathering dust in the Publications Office...
...there is no reason why the Student Council report should lie dormant. It is, in fact, based on the same principle as the "area" plan--the fight against too complete segregation of separate branches of learning. The Council's five broad survey courses bear a close relation to the new fields of concentration envisaged by the Faculty committee. The professors now working on the "area" project would find that the Student Council is in agreement with them as to the direction Harvard education must take. If anyone is going to act on the Council's report, they are the ones...
Olum, a Mathematics concentrator, was the highest ranking member of the Junior Eight at the time of its election last year and is vice-president of the Student Union...
Horn is Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, a former Managing Editor of the Guardian, and member of the Debating Council. He concentrates in Economics. Hussey is Editor-in-Chief of the Guardian, a member of the Student Council, and is on the Lowell House Committee...
...Study does have concrete results in indicating what makes various undergraduates tick, it does not mean that the College will further regulate the student's life. Rather the Dean's Office will be in a position to suggest a definite course of action for each individual which will make the most of his potentialities as indicated by the Study. For it is hoped eventually all incoming Freshmen will be thus tested...