Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...countering these problems which would squeeze the greatest educational benefit possible from Harvard's lecture system would be to start each semester with three weeks of reading period followed by an exam, and then embark on the lectures. Obviously this pattern would apply only to most(though not all) Humanities and Social Science courses and not to Natural Science courses, since these latter depend, peculiarily, on a gradual, step by step, accumulation of skills and knowledge...
...about. This forces most courses to allow almost complete freedom in the choice of paper topic--and often people write papers that they might have written without having taken the course at all. In short, anybody who does not read throughout the year loses much of the educational benefit of the lecture system...
There are other minor objections but the overwhelming advantages of the proposed system, in terms of educational benefit and mental happiness, not to mention the eternal extinction of hour-exams, make it seem at least worthy...
...Harvard Business School may hold a special session this summer for the benefit of first-year students who will become eligible for the draft in June...
...plan argue, the Ed School also stands to gain from an influx of disadvantaged students. Minority group students bring with them a gut comprehension of the problems of their communities, and the Ed School cannot hope to function effectively in its urban training or research until it has the benefit of their perspective...