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Thus, professors and students alike will be affected by this usurpation of individual decision-making by the Faculty and the core subcommittees. There are indeed valid points to be made on both sides of the question. It is important, however, that all those who can influence the final decision on the adoption of the report's proposals realize the extent to which these reforms will transform General Education and, more importantly, the academic ambience at Harvard...
...student input. Last year, the Educational Resources Group published what Francis M. Pipkin, Baird Professor of Science and former associate dean of the Faculty, described as a "well thought out and coherent response to the report of the Task Force on the Core Curriculum." The response made some very valid objections to the task force's proposal...
...decided that more work was needed on the proposal. Perhaps, it seemed, students were finally being given input. However, when the new committee was set up to work on a new proposal, there was no provision for student input. Why, if students had shown themselves capable of raising valid points, were they left...
...hard for me to judge how useful or interesting The Ends of Power will be to the casual reader. I confess that parts of it were hard for me to follow, in spite of my familiarity with the subject. With all its factual inaccuracies, the book does give valid and important insights to anyone interested in the Nixon mystery. Unfortunately, these revelations are unduly restrained and limited in scope...
...crudities, though sometimes it has been valuable as a tonic and revelation to the best writers. Still, why is there in America today the oppressive sense that the art of writing has degenerated, slackened, been standardized and cheapened? The question has been voiced before, and it has been valid before, but there is a special urgency in it today...