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Peter Albersheim, assistant professor of Biology and one of the four lecturers in Nat Sci 5 this year, attributed the comparatively small demand for the course to the absence of George Wald, and also to the popularity...
...curriculum. Shortly it will bit the professional schools, and they two will have to revise their practices radically. This is no time to try to live by the book--any book. Our sanctions must lie elsewhere--in the pertinence and relevance and effectiveness of what we are doing. George Wald Professor of Biology...
...COHEN comments: I could not concur more heartily in Professor Wald's hope that the attitudes of General Education are invading the departments. But the evidence is that Gen Ed has yet to establish a beachhead in the Introductory course offerings in mathematics, physics, and (excepting possibly Chem. 2) chemistry. Whatever the reasons for the absence of the Gen Ed spirit (e.g., the importance of graduate students, the highly formal substance of a field), funneling non-concentrators into an introductory course might bring about explicit discussion of the "relevance" of the field, and at the very least would assure...
...George Wald, professor of Biology, wrote in the report on the Visual Arts at Harvard (the Brown Report of 1956), that "what divides man from the beast is knowing and creating." He pointed out that "it is man in his aspect of knowing that we find enshrined in the university...
...While Wald pointed out important similarities between artistic and scientific investigation he also noted a major difference: "Science is organized knowledge. Art, whatever its intrinsic ends, express the beliefs, aspirations, and emotions of the whole culture. The one is a severely limited, the other an unlimited, enterprise. From this point of view, the artist in the university takes on something of the position of the philosopher. His is the voice through which all of us must speak...