Word: departmentalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Free from the rigid requirements of a department, the New College student will develop his own program of concentration. Keeping his general field in mind, he will make "any combination of courses, individual projects, and field examinations which he can justify to a faculty committee" drawn from the three academic...
While the President repeatedly denies, moreover, that political affiliation is a factor in determining his Administration's appointments, he does little in practice to confirm this position. Last year, he allowed Meade Alcorn to blackball Henry Labouisse--the State Department's choice for deputy director of the International Cooperation Agency...
This modern form of noblesse oblige, however gratifying, is scarcely conducive to effective international negotiation or to the development of a career foreign service. For when the top ambassadorial positions are by necessity reserved for large contributors to party campaign funds who are anxious to dabble in public service, initiative...
...great a contribution to a sound program, however, has been the recognition that its organization must be inter-departmental and preferably House-oriented. The failure of the old non-honors program may in large part be attributed to its attempt to channel back into the department students who had rejected honors to escape the confines of departmentalization...
Such a tutorial, extending over the entire year, would count as an additional half course in the manner of General Education A. Offering credit would provide encouragement without coercion; students would not have to enroll, but those who did would be likely to keep up with their work. A student...