Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposed the Loeb's emphasis on professionalism, but not from the same standpoint as most undergraduates. He saw little use in a drama center which made no attempt to educate the students who worked in it. He wanted to dilute the "laissez-faire amateurism" so opposed by Chapman with credit courses and seminars, rather than simply turn over leading roles to more experienced people...
...widespread hostility toward most of the ideas he advanced. Faculty sentiment was divided between support for Chapman's professionalism, and for the amateurism which had been the mark of Harvard theatre before the Loeb. Most students were committed to the latter, and they were just as hostile to credit courses as to outside people, graduate students and faculty members...
Actually, Bishop Pike did all the academic work expected for that degree. He brought 30 points of credit from Virginia Theological Seminary and ten points from Yale Law School. At Union, he took eight hours of work at General Theological Seminary, which Union also accepted. Contrary to your report, he took most of his work in the basic theological disciplines. He worked under both Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, and I remember his brilliant work in a seminar in Christian Ethics. The book was offered as a thesis and was allowed only two credits. JOHN C. BENNETT President...
University of Michigan are demanding to be heard on academic policies, faculty tenure and educational philosophy. Princeton students sit on academic committees, recently won the right to audit courses, take the final examination, get credit if they pass, forget it if they fail. Some 800 students at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pa., last week burned cardboard replicas of proposed campus buildings to protest the sterile modern architecture. Students at the City University of New York staged a sit-in to demand a voice in administrative decisions, but President Buell Gallagher insisted that they were asking too much...
...number of applicants for Hum 105, the University's one credit course involving work in a Loeb production, has risen to 380--more than seven times the number that will ultimately be admitted...