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...liberal arts education, transforming it into technical training." In his opinion the faculty has neglected its responsibility to say what knowledge "is fundamentally important for an educated American." Instead, it has left decisions "to the students--in their selection of courses--and to the specialized scholars..who design and teach Core courses...
After receiving his doctorate from Harvard in 1923. Bush remained as an instructor and tutor until 1927. Following a 10-year stint at the University of Minnesots, Bush returned to teach at Harvard until his retirement...
Arthur Burns, the U.S. Ambassador to Bonn, is fond of complaining to West Germans that by neglecting to teach the history of the past 40 years-West German schoolbooks have tended to skip lightly over the Hitler and immediate postwar periods-the country has produced a generation with little or no historical perspective. In the eyes of West German youth who cannot remember the cold war or the Berlin airlift or the Korean War, there is really not much to distinguish between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. As a result, the vital Atlantic Alliance is sometimes questioned or even...
...curriculum is no curriculum at all. As a neighboring liberal arts institution 1947 curricular reform report put it: "It is the function of a liberal college to require at least an intelligent consideration of a few of the fields of knowledge which the college, by the fact of its teaching them, has market as significant." Such marking requires that the Faculty define a hierarchy, establish educational priorities, make a judgement on what is fundamentally important for an educated American and what is secondary or important for the specialized scholar. The Harvard Faculty finds doing this "in-appropriate...
...members were originally supposed to teach and guide students in using the Loeb's staggering resources, including a mainstage which demands near-professional expertise to handle. On the academic side, ART-ers were to teach a small core of drama courses offered by a Faculty Committee on Dramatic Arts, chaired by Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III. Finally, the close contact with Harvard was to benefit American theater as an institution, infusing it with a needed literary acuity and sense of the past...