Asserting that "in the present emergency students cannot be allowed to wander about in the underbrush finding courses," A. Chester Hanford '17, Dean of the College, said in a forum held at Dunster House last night that the College must give "strong advice" to students on suitable courses.
In the immediate future, the greatest danger is in over-specialization, Dean Hanford stated, and the House especially will play a more important role in preserving the liberal tradition of humane education.
Donald C. Williams, associate professor of Philosophy, denounced courses which deal in the works of great men and maintained that the humanities should be brought as near realities as the physical sciences. In his avocation of a controlled curriculum, he was opposed by John C. Robbins '42, who said that "spoon-feeding" of students was already far too prevalent.
Other speakers on the forum were William J. Crozier '18, professor of General Physiology, Leigh Hoadley, professor of Zoology, George Sarton, professor of History of Science, and Mark P. Schlefer '43.
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