Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What made the winter so odd? The Weather Bureau, which would like everyone to remember that it saw just such a winter shaping up as early as November, says that the same basic condition caused both the western cold and the eastern warmth. The villain, says William H. Klein of the bureau's Extended Forecast Section, was an "excess of [air] mass" in the subpolar regions of the Western Hemisphere and a "deficit of mass" in the subtropics. This unbalanced condition, favoring the southward movement of cold air, upset the whole air circulation...
...CRIMSON feels that a corrective non-credit half-course, as suggested by the new General Education plan, will be far more effective than the present catch-all English A, especially when accompanied with the proposed increased stress on writing in basic GE courses. The enlarged English C will give students a greater opportunity for creative writing, if they want this instruction in addition to the writing for specific purposes which the GE program will emphasize...
...spirit of experimentation in basic courses has pervaded the College. Although most of this has been done in the General Education program, the Economics Department has come up this year with an interesting solution to a universal academic problem...
...leading motive behind these post-war changes was the realization that there are two distinctly different demands for an introductory course in every department. The concentrator in that department wants the basic tools for future study, and the non-concentrator wants a broad picture and general understanding of the field. At many points these demands conflict; the usual practice was to ignore the non-concentrator. The Economics Department's solution to the problem is to divide its elementary course into two different types of sections--for concentrators and non-concentrators. Non-concentrator sections have eliminated such subjects as analysis...
...double demand setup applies to all basic courses. General Education has solved the problem for some departments, particularly in lecture courses. The Economics Department's plan is a valuable solution to this problem in section courses, and one which other departments--such as English and Mathematics--might well consider...