Education: The Roads of Learning

Harvard's much-advertised experiment in courses that cut across fields will not get going until next fall. Columbia College* has been doing it for 27 years. Last week Columbia took stock, announced to Harvard and the rest of the world that the scheme works fine.

A two-year course in Contemporary Civilization has been required at Columbia since 1919. Now two other cut-across courses, Science (started in 1934) and Humanities (1937) will be required of all freshmen and sophomores, leaving them almost no time for elective courses until their junior year. In a brief, highly readable report edited by Historian Jacques Barzun (A College...

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