Word: curricular
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moderator Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Students, set the tone for the gathering in New Lecture Hall by noting definite shifts in emphasis since 1930 toward more serious studying and more intense extra-curricular activity. He affirmed that in an age of anxiety, today's undergraduate does not shirk his responsibility...
...University has announced the formation of a 12-man Committee on Applied Mathematics and Statistics, to inform and advise the Administration of necessary curricular changes in the two areas...
Yale, in disclosing the new plan, said that it was caused to a great extent by extra-curricular life conflicting with studies. "Undoubtedly," the Yale announcement said, "the emphasis on athletics, extra-curricular life, weekends, and a bee-hive of activity outside the classroom on which prestige and success are felt to turn, now makes an environment which involves serious conflict with important educational goals...
...unequal distribution of previous years, the Housemasters placed no limit on the number of freshmen who could be accepted into the House of their first choice. The Masters this year "bartered" among themselves in order to produce an equal distribution according to rank group, field of concentration, and extra-curricular activities...
...after a report by Hatcher and Charles L. Edson '56 stressed the need to give undergraduates a clearer view of the various alumni organization's privileges. Prominent alumni leaders, Deans Leighton and Bender, William Bentinck-Smith '37, assistant to the President, and a number of students from various extra-curricular groups serve on the Committee...