Word: buts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In a strange step backwards, the Division of History-Government-Economics is applying an old and useless method of correlation to take the place of the examinations abandoned last spring. They are demanding that seniors in the fields of government and economics, and not in history, take one full advanced...
The present ruling is founded on a false principle. It assumes that a man taking courses in a subject remotely connected with his own field of concentration will automatically correlate the two fields. In a majority of cases this is impossible without the extra impetus of tutorial, examinations, or written...
Last year it was decided to discontinue the correlation exams. Although considered unsuccessful, they had at least demanded a general knowledge of social sciences and some ability in combining the material of two different fields, which is more than can be said for the compulsory advanced course. The fact that...
As long as the plans for broader fields of concentration remain in the embryonic stage, a satisfactory solution is difficult. It is rather too much to hope that sufficiently versatile tutors can be found to shoulder the burden of correlation in History-Government-Economies, much as they would be appreciated...
The first to handle the controls officially yesterday was Leonard G. Shepard '42, but Thomas L. Hine '40 beat the gun and took to the air at 7:30 o'clock on Saturday morning in one of the five dual-controlled Piper Cub government planes.