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President Conant yesterday cited the twin evils of panic and panacea as the main blocks to rational behavior in the world of today...
Instruction remains the significant problem area in this as in other colleges. The lecture system, first target of many reformers, has many desirable elements for a large institution. It is, however, no panacea. Its excuse is the means of allowing a "great" man to speak to large numbers of people, and when a lecturer is mediocre or worse the system is less than worthwhile. Lectures should, therefore, be considered not as the only educational method at Harvard, but rather as one of many systems or combinations of systems available to departments or faculty men planning their courses...
...educational system devised as a panacea for one philosophical group will almost certainly be challenged by others. Flaws can be found in any utopia, and educators would be among the quickest to look for them. Without urging the necessity and inevitability of every reform included in the plan, however, it may be possible to outline for non-scientific studies a utopian program which would answer some of the most damaging attacks made on the educational structure of the College as it stands...
...artistic, intellectual and moral traditions, wants to make herself heard, she must organize. Men are ready to accept this idea of organization, but they find it difficult to execute because they have not always the necessary courage to accept sacrifices. Those who think of Western Union as a panacea are wrong, terribly wrong, so wrong they will never have the courage to succeed with this policy which is first based on sacrifices...