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With the tutorial cutback apparently here to stay, undergraduate dependence on formal courses for a firmly grounded knowledge of a particular field of concentration has increased acutely. The added responsibility thus assumed by the Faculty necessarily forces an explanation of its powers to assume that responsibility as well as a consideration of the course catalogue offerings of that Faculty...
...Senate went a routine treaty establishing formal relations between the U.S. and the new republic of the Philippines. To Cabinet officers, all federal departments and agencies, went strongly worded messages, ordering a cutback of at least $2.2 billion in Government spending as a brake against inflation and the looming budget deficit...
This faith has not been justified. Left relatively free by the Administration to determine department policy on tutorial, many department heads have been robbing Peter to pay Paul. Seizing upon the cutback as a golden opportunity to buy more time for experiment and research, they have purchased it at the expense of the tutorial plan. In diametrical opposition to the professors to whom "Research is . . . the essential raison d'ctre for a university" are those Faculty members who complain that financial persuasion from University Hall, which constrains them to use funds ordinarily allotted to tutorial for expansion and other departmental...
...cloquence of the Faculty majority and the Administration, hindsight has proved wrong their insistence that the cutback would only strengthen the system and would in no wise sacrifice the thorough familiarity with a particular field of concentration which has been the main prerequisite for a degree since the inception of the tutorial system. A return to the superficiality which was the bane of the free elective system is foreshadowed in the scaling down of requirements for both the regular and honors degree in exactly those departments where tutorial has been hardest hit. The English department now requires...
Seemingly in answer to the Faculty's complaint that the responsibility for the cutback lies at the doorstep of University Hall, President Conant last week in a letter to the Student Council announced that there was no financial stringency involved in the tutorial limitation. He said further that the responsibility for tutorial rests entirely with the Faculty. Paradox? And further complicated by Mr. Conant's assurance that he stands four square behind Provost Buck, the implied target of Faculty complaints...