Word: blackmere
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...among non-honors men, agreement on the mechanics of a plan is still to come. The most recent, and perhaps the soundest, program was turned out two weeks ago by the Student Council in one of its most significant reports in recent years. A council committee, headed by Donald Blackmer, carefully went through the Bender Report and other faculty proposals, held extensive interviews with both teachers and undergraduates, and came up with a plan. The Blackmer program is briefly as follows...
...Blackmer Report's priority for allocating available funds differs from the two previous faculty proposals. The Bender Report last fall suggested that the five-man limit on groups was important enough so that most individual thesis tutorial should be sacrificed to the general good. The Brinton proposals of this spring, made by an unofficial committee of representatives from the five largest departments, held that senior individual honors tutorial deserved top consideration, and if anything had to go it should be the five-man limitation of the groups. The Blackmer Report takes the middle, and expensive, view. Seniors should get individual...
...final controversial features of the Council proposals deserve consideration: tutorial content and grading. As the Blackmer Report points out, the present content of tutorial in several departments is either overspecialized or aimless. Any new program should allow tutors freedom to assign work fitting the individual interests of each group. But it should also receive broad departmental direction to insure that the work cuts across course lines...
...work in tutorial, many feel that this is necessary to insure that assignments are not neglected in the face of other academic pressures. While some written comment at the end of the year is undoubtedly desirable as a check on both student and tutor, we agree with the Blackmer Report that the application of letter grades to tutorial would be more harm than good...
Also: Chase N. Peterson, William S. Holbrook, Robert E. Herzstein, Stuart Q. Florlage, Carroll M. Lowenstein, John L. Lewis, Donald L. M. Blackmer, John M. Stevenson, Louis B. McCagg, Charles S. Walsh, David L. Ratner, James E. Bacon, Thomas L. Barrette, Dustin M. Burke, Guy M. McKhann, Ronald S. Berman William R. Lamb...