Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Faculty Council's recommendations of cross-field concentrations will see their first practical application today, as Dean Chase appoints four committees to deal with the down-to-brass-tacks problems of the Council proposal. The plan has already met its first criticism, in the light of its function under the University system, as the opinions of four professors were submitted yesterday...
Opinions coming from the scientific departments seemed to convey the general opinion that the new plan of cross-field and area concentrations will not create much change in the present setup. Both Professor Frederick A. Saunders, Chairman of the Physics Department, and Professor Frederick L. Hisaw, Chairman of the Biology Department, were of the opinion that the scientific fields are already broad enough to satisfy the requirements of practically any student interested in a scientific education...
...There is no great urgency in any of the sciences for inter-departmental concentration," declared Professor Saunders. He went on to say that the proposals of the Faculty Council were actually an extension of the existing system. They allow students to go ahead with cross-field studies without submitting their plans for the individual faculty consideration necessary at present...
From the field of Economics comes the feeling that the entire problem is far too vast to be solved by a more proposal of cross-field concentration. Harold H. Burbank, Chairman of the Department of Economics and Wells Professor of Political Economy, who has worked with the tutorial system for twenty-five years, said that the teaching staff is not large enough to follow through on the plan...
...details of the plan are concerned, Wild pointed out that while some of the cross-field concentrations are jumbled and hypothetical at present, a few of the groups of study, such as the classical tradition field, really present something of worth to the student