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...idea of presuming to teach History and Lit as a synthesis--and not as a combination--necessitates a meeting-ground. Someplace, literature must be taught as history and vice versa. There is some consensus as to when this is valid--as, for example, that the art of a Shakespeare can be studied as craftsmanship whereas it is more profitable to approach Herman Wouk as a statement of group adjustment; but the dividing line never really becomes clear...
...Stratton is well qualified to understand the importance of the humanities; after he graduated from M.I.T., he made the grand tour, spent much of his time studying French literature at the Universities of Grenoble and Toulouse. He earned his doctorate in mathematical physics at Zurich, returned to M.I.T. to teach electrical engineering, soon switched to physics. His first big administrative task after World War II: organizing the successor to the institute's wartime Radiation Laboratory, which had been chiefly responsible for the development of radar, under a new title-the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He became known...
...Anyway, you can learn about more things when you take chemistry or bio or zo," said the girl in the blue jumper. "So you take an art course and they teach you how to look at a painting. It's not going to help you when you get married...
Applicants for Social Sciences 136 will be asked to complete a questionnaire on their interests and concerns in connection with the course. David Riesman '31, Henry Ford Professor of Social Sciences, who will teach the course in the spring term, said yesterday that there will also be a request for similar information after the first meeting of the course...
Your recent article about the teaching of languages at Harvard, while interesting and in some ways constructive, suffers, I believe from two major defects. In the first place, it seems to be based on interviews held more than a year ago; we have made many changes since. More importantly, it sets up false alternatives: either, it implies, we must follow the Cornell system, or teach French, German, etc. as dead languages. We have managed to avoid both these extremes. (Even Cornell has recently modified its method to make it less flagrantly anti-humanistic.) Nor does anyone in the Division...