Word: core
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eighty Amherst men in Political Science 27, given only in the fall of election years, field work is the "core of the course." During the campaign period demands on their time are "almost limitless." They send out campaign literature, write speeches, and canvass door-to-door instead of reading about politics in textbooks...
These two points are the core of Mr. Landis' letter. There remains, however, a somewhat embarrassing side-issue, Lodge's needless, off-hand, and stupid espousel of McCarthy. Yet, even this is not the damning flaw Mr. Landis considers it. Lodge, according to a current and valid cliche, usually votes wisely in Washington and apologizes for his wisdom in Massachusetts. When you compare Lodge's 1950 minority report on McCarthy's early charges and his recent ill-advised statement, you see this old cliche proven. If this was a single incident, Mr. Landis' charges would be more than embarrassing...
With these skills, students can begin to understand man viewed "from within." After that can come the study of externals -of social science (the study of groups, laws, customs, etc.) and of natural science, the "law for thing." But these must never be the core, for taken alone they can actually become a menace. "To the student who knows nothing but social science, man is known only by his function or participation in the group. If a man himself is most notable because he is a member of a social institution, no matter how exalted the institution, he is already...
Perhaps the most interesting and certainly the most popular Core course is Professor Herman Brautigum's Philosophy and Religion. Brautigum takes magnificent advantage of the opportunity he has to introduce his freshman students to learning. First, he say, he "tries to convince them that the upper middle class orthodoxy they bring to Colgate from, Westchester county is not the only way to look at the world...
While the Core program has been nurtured despite the financial squeeze, other improvements have been cut down. Colgate would like to conduct all senior courses in seminar form, and tried to before the war. But now, lack of personnel makes seminar courses an exception rather than a rule. The University made a game try at a tutorial system when it introduced graduate student "preceptors." But there are only 16 preceptors for 1300 students...