Word: reporting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...fall of 1938, a committee headed by James Tobin '39 and J. Spence Harvin '39 sat down to figure out what ailed the Harvard curriculum. Throughout the year they held weekly sessions often running far into the night, and in June, 1939, they released a 13,000 word report urging the reinstatement of a liberal content at Harvard...
...This report was discussed at length by the Faculty last year, and reprinted in pamphlet form was sent to colleges and universities all over the country. A Faculty committee appointed last winter has been discussing the problems raised by the Council, and will submit a report to the Faculty this fall...
...most striking suggestions in the 1939 report was the proposals that all undergraduates be required to take five "introductory area courses." Last year another Council committee drew up a detailed plan for these courses, including outlines and tentative reading lists, and published them in an 11,000 word report, excerpts from which are published on this page...
...quote from President Butler's own report for 1926-27, "The scholar who in sincerity and knowledge criticizes or dissents from some well-established institution, idea or practice . . . is as much entitled to that dissent as his fellow who defends what this scholar condemns. This is one of the hardest lessons for public opinion in a democracy to learn. The persecuting instinct is so deep and so widespread and the passion for uniformity and conformity is so strong that many a missile will continue to be leveled at the devoted head of any scholar who dissents from a prevailing...
Much work remains to be done on matters connected with education in the College. In this report we have attempted to lay the foundations for a system which might remedy some the defects that have been found to exist in the College's instruction. Next year's Council could expand our plan and make it even more specific, both in its content an its organization. The tutorial system, which the Teachers' Union investigated from the point of view of administration and personnel, might well be considered from the student's point of view, with the objet of discovering what part...