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...Three-Fold Failure...
...failure of the Music Department is three-fold: to be the kind of department that attracts secondary school students seriously interested in studying music in college; to act as the center of, or even take an active part in, the musical life of the college; and to attract the most exciting musicians as concentrators. This has led to the peculiar situation in which it is considered ignominious to concentrate in music, and the categories of "musician" and "music major" are almost mutually exclusive. If someone is a flutist and a physics major or a 'cellist and concentrator in history...
Crooks sees a "three-fold mission" for the Summer School, actually a kind of mission civilatrice for Harvard. First, he says, is the obligation of a university--any university--to be at work as much as possible: "Why shut down this magnificant plant all summer long?" Then there is Harvard's special role as one of the few liberal arts summer schools in the New England region, serving students who could not otherwise go to summer school. And finally there is the desirability of "people from all over the world having at least one Harvard experience...
...true that he gave his famous lecture, "Acres of Diamonds," 6,000 times and received $8,000,000 for doing so. The really significant fact is, however, that he gave away the $8,000,000 to educate promising young people. Taking as his life's pattern the three-fold emphasis he found in the life of Christ, "preaching, teaching and healing," he helped found an outstanding church, a great university and three hospitals...
Instead, each student would be required to take four courses outside his area of concentration. Retaining the present three-fold division of Gen Ed courses (but with the suggestion that they be renamed Humanities, Sciences, and Social Studies), the program would require a student to take at least one course in each area outside his field...