Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...higher courses--which he rarely does--he will have to find out on his own. Most other departments try to give their beginners a rough idea, at least, of the importance of their field as a whole, and how a particular course fits into it. But in the language program, a student plunges immediately into the mechanics of memorizing technical details. He reads Voltaire for exercise in reading French, and for little else. In this way, he loses sight of language as a means by which he can discover another culture...
...revitalized language program can easily attract many undergraduates now fretting their way through narrow reading channels. But the benefits would not be for students alone. If language departments show their wares to Freshman beginners in a more favorable light, the thin ranks of their concentrators might grow along with a new student appreciation...
...first time anywhere, poet Archibald MacLeish read his newest piece yesterday afternoon before 600 as the highlight of his Morris Gray Fund poetry reading program at the New Lecture Hall...
MacLeish's visit to Cambridge was solely for the reading, presented by the English Department. Previously this season, the Gray Fund presented Stephen Spender in a similar program...
Comparing Harvard's General Education program with Dartmouth's "Great issues" program which he recently keynoted, MacLeish declared he was "very interested and excited" about both. He emphasized that, unlike the Harvard plan, Dartmouth's program consists of a compulsory course which gives all undergraduates a common experience before leaving college...