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...second major proposal of the Council is the integration of tutorial instruction into Harvard education. Tutorial instruction is necessary to make concentration something more vital than counting courses. But at present there is danger that the tutorial system is passing. This danger arises partly from problems of personnel which are not the direct concern of this report, but partly also from indifference on the part of students...
...Council's proposals are designed to remedy the over-concentration and inadequate distribution which the Council finds at present exist; they may be viewed as proposals to reinstate distribution in Harvard education. To replace the present distribution requirement, the Council would substitute five required introductory courses expressly constructed to give a broad education. Of these, two would be courses in the humanities, two in the natural sciences, and one in the social sciences. The two in the humanities would really compose one two-year course in intellectual and cultural history. Of the two in natural sciences, one would be concerned...
Following the appropriate introductory course the student would begin concentration as at present, but courses of the order of Government 1 could be on a higher plane. Or the student could concentrate in one of the projected "area" fields of study recommended by the Faculty Committee on Broader Fields of Study, to which the proposed courses would be a natural introduction. The area committees on the humanities, social sciences, and the natural sciences, authorized by the Faculty last year, would administer the introductory courses proposed by the Council...
This evening in Agassiz Theatre at Radcliffe Mr. Elmer Schocttle, pianist, and members of the Longy School faculty and the Boston Symphony Orchestra will present an extraordinary program of chamber music. The concert opens with the Duo Concertante for Piano and Clarinet by Weber, the clarinet played by David Glazer. This work is in a traditional three movement form and is notable, from the technical point of view, for the bold use of the upper notes of the clarinet range...
...quarrel with the concept of the Communist Party that it is the responsibility of the Party to defend the foreign policy of the Soviet Union regardless of what it does. I have also very grave doubts about the policy of the Soviet Union itself. I think its present action is a betrayal of the World Revolution...