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Professor Hoffmann's plea for a "well-conceived new design" in undergraduate education at Harvard strikes me as very reasonable and bold- and impracticable. To expect the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to legislate a new and universally applied conception of undergraduate education is to expect a miraculous consensus to overcome the Faculty in 1970 when there is no precedent for it. In fact, the only precedents for a radical change in educational theory and practice that Harvard College has ever seen have come when strong-willed presidents sought to institute reforms. Within the last few decades, when the Faculty...
...Stanley Hoffmann, professor of Government, expressed concern that taking such minor steps might damage a larger curriculum reform effort. David Reisman, Ford Professor of the Social Sciences and member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, replied that the CUE's concerns were "every bit as cosmic" as Hoffmann's and that "this miniscule reform" will not better that committee's larger efforts...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, received applause when he told his students yesterday morning in Lowell Lecture Hall that he found the bombing "unjustified and despicable." Then he continued his lecture on primitive warfare...
...several years, we've been trying to revive interest in Western Europe," Hoffmann said. "There were fewer and fewer people who seemed to be doing any work in post-war Europe. Most of the interest has gone into American politics and underdeveloped countries...
...Hoffmann, who was instrumental in establishing the Social Studies concentration, was asked about the possibility of a major in West European Studies...