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...despite its many drawbacks, concentrators are satisfied that the field is worthwhile for medicine, and that if develops a good scientific technique. The comparative youth of the field, its wide scope, its lack of departmental unity, and its need for courses and "labs" of its own are problems which must be tackled in the coming years, but the ability of its present directors augurs well for the future. To the pre-medical student it gives a thorough background for his later work...
...Faculty Council's action in broadening the scope of Plan B and allowing advanced students to enter Harvard with less red tape is an added step in the right direction. For some time it has been realized that a standard entrance requirement is in effect unfair to a certain percentage of those seeking admission. Students more developed than the majority of their fellows have entered Harvard with honors, but have been held back for a year by the present unwise blanket system of elementary requirements...
More than 50 exhibits depicting in general terms the present scope and the historical background of the library's principle activities will be shown from May until November, Clarence E. Walton, Assistant Librarian, said Each department of the library, including the Treasure Room, the Education Division, the Theatre Collection and the Poetry Room, will display material of public interest...
...more significant is the concentrators' almost unanimous opinion that the method and scope of teaching in the department is seriously in need of revision. Too much emphasis is laid, they feel, on political theory: they approach, it is felt, is too analytical, too scholastic, in the strictest sense of the term. The department treats too exclusively of the art of government, paying too little attention to its practise. In courses as in tutorial work--throughout the whole work a student does in preparation for his final examinations--the outside world is far too often regarded as a scientist regards...
...expected that when the Littauer School of Public Administration is organized several courses dealing with Sociology will be included in the curriculum. It is probable that these courses will be now in scope and will cover the borderline between Government, Economics and Sociology...