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...primary factors in Lowell's advocacy of fields of concentration to replace free electives, and there appears to be no specific disaffection with competition now. When grades present individual psychological problems, the College will offer advice, and psychiatric help if necessary, but it will scarcely discard an entire educational framework to solve problems it considers essentially personal. Any change must come because teachers, and even students, feel that more will be learned without grades, but not because of current psychiatric evidence...
...relevancy of these programs to Harvard is decreased by another factor; the faculties at these institutions are excellent teaching faculties, but while they include individual scholars of renown, they are not centers of research. Even within this teaching framework, counseling duties, when added to the normal routine of life in a college community, constitute a severe drain on time and energy. At Swarthmore, the teacher performs in both seminar and course, and this can result in a schedule requiring the equivalent of five half courses and two one-term seminars in a year, or an average of up to thirteen...
...opera was Le Nozze di Figaro. So began the greatest collaboration in operatic history. To this day, says British Biographer April FitzLyon, nobody quite knows why "the facile, mediocre poet, the very inexperienced dramatist, should be the man who, above all others, succeeded in providing Mozart with the perfect framework for his music." One possible explanation is that a better poet than Da Ponte might have been less willing to bow to Mozart's stern dictum: "In an opera the poetry must be altogether the obedient daughter of the music." It is the usual fate of the librettist...
Other speakers will summarize current social studies curricula and work out a philosophical and practical framework for action in an effort to place the problem of education on communism in historical perspective...
...Economics Department's commitment to General Education should not completely overbalance its obligation to Potential concentrators and others interested in the technical side of its field. The department should satisfy the needs of both groups by providing for the theoretically inclined and mathematically prepared minority within the framework of Economics 1's present section systems...