Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard, which comes rather late than early to this problem, has benefitted by the mistakes of its colleagues: the Wright proposals, by allowing the widest latitude of time as well as choice, avoid the real danger evident in other colleges, which destroy all choice by stacking the required courses in the first two years and saving concentration for later...
Recommendations for the permanent adoption of the General Education program will be presented to the faculty for consideration this afternoon, Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government and chairman of the Committee on General Education, told the CRIMSON yesterday. The proposals will also apply to Radcliffe...
There will be no single required course for every undergraduate, Wright explained, although many other colleges have adopted such a plan. Instead, if the Committee's recommendations are approved, General Education will take the form of "guided distribution," he concluded...
...Committee does not advocate complete adoption of GE immediately, Wright stated. Instead, a two-year "adjustment period" is recommended...
...Wright explained that the emphasis on English composition will not be lessened; freshmen will write more than they do now, but instead of the usual English A topics, writing will be concerned with actual course work. The philosophy behind this change is to "end the notion that form exists for composition courses alone," Wright stated...