Word: deans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first two years of study, the student's program consists mainly of courses in General Education. According to Academic Dean Meribeth Elliott Cameron, seven or eight of the ten courses in the freshman and sophomore years are taken to fulfill the Mount Holyoke General Education requirement, which is considerably stiffer than Harvard...
...last two years, each girl must choose a field of concentration from one of 23 departments. Dean Cameron stated that several interdepartmental majors are also available, the most popular one being American culture...
...honors program at Mount Holyoke is not so extensive as Harvard's as it is open to juniors and seniors only, with most participating just in the last year. According to Dean Cameron, 25 to 30 per cent are eligible, and last year, 22 per cent graduated with some form of honors...
...Dean explained that the honors program is not so large as Harvard's since from the beginning the girls have small classes, and there is not so much a need to offset large classes with individual work such as tutorial...
...graduate with honors, the dean continued, one must prepare a long paper, and pass a special honors examination, in addition to passing the comprehensive examination within her department...