Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Redbook is seldom mentioned, too, in the General Education Committee, although it has been used to prevent introduction of lower level courses in Fine Arts and music. Most of the Committee seems to think that the Redbook no longer applies to Harvard, if it ever...
...departments have learned the principle of General Education, I think the time to stop General Education has come," says Howe. Again, his attitude is a common one. Although one of the tenets of the old program was that no introductory course for concentrators could be really satisfactory for a non-concentrator, many people, including several members of the Committee, seem prepared to go back to the old departmental basis of distribution, largly because the present program lacks a constructive policy...
...Redbook remained the guiding principle of the program, the dominance of one field could be explained. But with the Redbook virtually a dead letter, this preferred status is an additional irritant. The initial ranks of those who did not support the Redbook have been swelled by those who think that the Redbook is simply being used as an excuse for perpetuating the dominance of the History department...
...General Education requirement eliminated, there is feeling in favor of the program. Professor Brower, who feels that the job can be done by the departments if they are carefully supervised, says of the committee, "It has fulfilled a function that nothing else has fulfilled--someplace where people think about what is happening to the average undergraduate...
...General Education is trying to do. The Redbook, impractical though it may have been, presented a clear educational policy. When courses multiplied, the Redbook lost its meaning, and General Education is now feeling the results. Unless a new and meaningful policy can be formed, Faculty members will continue to think that the departments can do the job of General Education, and the program will lose whenever a decision must be made...