The article describes a Humanities program in a Massachusetts Junior High School. (MF)

The author presents a two-fold design for liberal learning. Of foremost importance is the ethical quality of deliberate design. Secondly, the design of liberal learning should give students strength, finesse, and imaginative courage in purpose. (Author/AF)

Music, language and mathematics form the basis of existence. Keeping this in mind, teaching methods and philosophy can benefit by using this trio as guidelines for instruction. (Author/MF)

Calls for a social studies program aimed at the current social agenda and a unified humanities program aimed at helping each student in his personal becoming. (Author/JF)

Suggestions are given on developing a humanities course for high school students. (SP)

Paper delivered at the ADFL Summer Seminar for Chairmen, June 21-25, 1971 at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont. (DS)

Argues that the purpose of humanities courses ought to be not to make us feel good about ourselves, but to make us aware of ourselves." (Author/RD)

Concerned with narrowing the gap between science and the humanities, the author examines briefly the nature of science and literature, and suggests several areas in which the science teacher and the literature may fruitfully work together. (LC)

Discussion of the Victorian outlook on life with emphasis on the works of Browning, Tennyson and George Eliot. The author suggests that these authors attempted to "reconstruct christianity and to find a "firm basis for social progress and personal fulfillment. (Author/AP)

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Uses of microcomputers in higher education are discussed, including their general use in the liberal arts and simulations in the humanities. Examples of and issues related to requiring students to purchase microcomputers are also discussed; one study indicates that it may be wrong to require all students to make such purchases. (JN)

Proposes that a humanities perspective is one of three distinct themes of a professional education (along with theory and practice). The importance of the humanities perspective is such that the present sequenced pattern should be reconsidered and more attention given to the integration of the three themes throughout training. (JOW)

Examines the prospects for the humanities within the bureaucratic structure which determines resource allocations. Suggests that higher education be viewed as big business to help clarify ways in which change, policy, and individuals interact within complex settings. Concludes that leadership is needed to sustain the role of the humanities within…

Applies a recently suggested method for the automatic indexing of full text to extracts from the Brown Corpus and finds that scientific and technical extracts give rise to a larger number of index terms than social science and humanities extracts. Four tables and an 8-item reference list accompany the text. (Author/JL)