Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bill meant that returning veterans across the country would be able to afford a college education. Prior to the war, Conant, originally from middle-class Dorchester, had created new "National Scholarships" for students from the southern and western states to broaden Harvard's student body. But it took the war and the G.I. Bill to have a significant impact on the homogeneous student population...
General Education courses, established in May 1946, were envisioned as a broad overview of science and Western literature...
Classes offered in the fall of 1946 included an analysis of "classic texts from Homer to Shakespeare as the sources of a tradition in Western thought," a look at Greek epics and a survey of the evolution of the novel "from Don Quixote to War and Peace," according to Crimson articles on the subject...
Courses in Western civilization, political theory and biological science were also planned...
...days of focusing solely on the development of Western thought and civilization are long gone. Today's courses cover a much wider variety of topics, places and ideas...