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...Saudi talks produced the kind of solid physical supports without which the Eisenhower doctrine would founder in its offer of military support against Communist aggression in the Middle East. "There was agreement," said one U.S. official, "on everything we discussed." Beyond concord on aims and future pursuits within the framework of the U.N., the two countries agreed that 1) the U.S. will continue to use the strategically important Dhahran Air Field in Saudi Arabia for the next five years, in return for which 2) the U.S. will provide economic assistance and, over a five-year stretch, some $50 million...
Leafing through the catalog in search of a course, the undergraduate is struck by the large selection in upper level General Education. These courses, composed without relation to a specific departmental framework, consider widely varying topics of more than routine interest, and for a prerequisite they rarely demand more than an intellectual concern with the subject...
...voice, and that following the critics will produce only the voice which he has been told he will hear. If he reads a book about which he has heard enough, he can only react in those particular terms. He may reject or accept, but he is within the predetermined framework, which makes the possibility of an important experience slight...
...support for a grade system as a potential deterrent to glib generalization is related to the third, and posibly most basic, obstacle to independent study in the present framework. This has nothing to do with Harvard, except in so far as Harvard helps produce it: the increasing complexity of knowledge. When administrators lament the fact that fewer students today are engaged in individual research than there were in the 1930's, one is tempted to remind them that things are more complex and fragmented now than they were then. While there may have been seven books on Moby Dick then...
...support for a grade system as a potential deterrent to glib generalization is related to the third, and possibly most basic, obstacle to independent study in the present framework. This has nothing to do with Harvard, except in so far as Harvard helps produce it: the increasing complexity of knowledge. When administrators lament the fact that fewer students today are engaged in individual research than there were in the 1930's, one is tempted to remind them that things are more complex and fragmented now than they were then. While there may have been seven books on Moby Dick then...