Word: cromptons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attendance records of some faculty members are more shameful than others. Alfred Crompton, director of the Museum of Comparative Zoology and a CUE member last year, appeared once or twice at the beginning of the year, then mysteriously vanished. "Professor Crompton never came to any of the meetings, and then he shot down one of our proposals--tutorial legislation--at the Faculty Council meeting," Henderson recollects. Crompton concedes he went to "singularly few" CUE meetings, explaining he was otherwise engaged "with an enormous number of commitments." (He added he did not recall specifically the debate on tutorial reform. "Is that...
Alfred C. Crompton, a member of the council and professor of Biology, said yesterday that group tutorials are often preferable in the sciences. "It often takes the interaction of several students to get to the heart of an idea," Crompton said...
...Crompton said the reforms would serve "as an ideal model for departments to follow...
...Crompton said he did not believe the Faculty could enforce the legislation, but added the reforms "were not intended to be enforceable." The reforms should "simply draw attention to what a highly desirable tutorial would be like...
...Crompton, professor of Geology, said Bakker's work is "a very positive approach to the problem, but I don't think it's a complete solution...