Word: generalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dean Monro's proposal to put non-Honors tutorial under supervision of the General Education Committee is at once a marriage of convenience and a major step in educational policy. The utility of placing the new program under an existing interdepartmental administrative committee was clear to the Masters, but the real opportunity presented should not be obscured by the burdens which will be imposed on the Committee...
...long-standing obstacle to an imaginative non-departmental tutorial program has been the identification of Honors with intelligence. Since Honors, however, continues to have its traditional implication of intensive concentration, intelligence becomes synonymous with heavy concentration. In fact, students in the Social Sciences are only recommended for Honors in General Studies if it is physically impossible for them to complete the Honors program...
...university college it is virtually impossible to remove this emphasis on specialization in the departmental concentration programs, principally because of the importance of graduate students in undergraduate teaching. Assigning non-Honors tutorial to the General Education Committee is the first step in making someone responsible for non-departmental education, beyond mere distribution, at the upperclass level. It is encouraging that Harvard is again coming to recognize that the non-specialist deserves not only tutorial, but a full-fledged education...
Monday night Young attended a dinner of the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee which, although branded as Communistic by the House Committee on un-American Activities, has not been placed on the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations...
President Lowell was concerned about about the obvious inconvenience of the existing living arrangements, but he was far more disturbed by the general tendency of students to isolate themselves in stereotype economic and social groups. All the Greater Boston prep school boys were living in one little cluster, all the Cambridge and Boston Latin School boys in another, all the midwestern farm boys in another, and so on. Before making any changes in living arrangements, Lowell wanted to be sure any changes would help to break up and discourage these overly homogeneous groups...