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...real estate developer's plan to put seven or eight apartment houses and a civic-center-auditorium on a platform above the Charles River Basin met objection yesterday as a "grandiose scheme" to create a value for essentially worthless land...
...Harvard CRIMSON of February 19, three of my colleagues and friends (Messrs. Cherington, H. M. Jones, and Taylor) "attack Harris study on education." I am quoted as saying somewhere "that classes between 25 and 75 are 'worthless.'" I never said anything of the kind. I do believe that the most effective teaching, vis-a-vis the resources put in, is in the very small groups or lectures with, say, 75 students or more. Seymour E. Harris '20, Chairman, Department of Economics...
...that the Harris plan would work in purely economic terms," acknowledged Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Medieval History. He claimed, however, that the plan does not recognize the importance of the teacher-student relationship which exists in classes of 25 to 75. These classes were termed "worthless" by Harris...
...Repeated experiments show that the greatest educational gains come either in a large lecture with a top professor, or in very small seminar-type classes," Harris maintained. He called classes of between 25 and 75 students "worthless," and suggested that those with "small educational value" be dropped...
...Bhave has shamed and wheedled rich men into surrendering some 7,000,000 acres, but much of the land has proved barren and worthless, and other tracts are enmeshed in litigation. But Vinoba Bhave has gained more than land; in a nation that can still be stirred by radically simple spiritual appeals, he has won the hearts of millions of crushed and simple peasants...