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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program would abolish compulsory lower-level Gen Ed. A student who had fulfilled certain prerequisites could complete his requirement by taking an upper-level Gen Ed course...
This is an excellent idea. It should lead to the establishment of a number of superior courses at the upper level, since professors would be drawn there by the prospect of an unusually well-prepared student body...
...courses will come to seen increasingly foolish, but to boost the standards of these courses would be to deny the less-well-prepared the chance to come to Harvard. (We hope that the committee on General Education will eventually recognize this by making AP credit sufficient preparation for an upper-level Gen Ed course...
...Negro slums: Detroit's Brewster, Chicago's West Garfield Park, Las Vegas' West Side and Los Angeles' now notorious Watts. The rural poor cluster in the picturesque Appalachians and the Ozarks, on the Louisiana-Texas coastal plain, in the southern Piedmont and the Upper Great Lakes areas where the land is as beaten as the people...
...from roughly the top third of high school classes rather than from the top 10% as many select schools do. His own high school grades were below average, yet he made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Buffalo. "This country," he says emphatically, "was not built by the upper 10%." Full professors will be paid an average $15,000 a year, get 20 paid weeks off every third year. The curriculum will be pared to a relatively small number of liberal-arts courses to enable students to get a comprehensive view of their subject matter. "We will...