Word: eds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman meet, the Yardlings will have to produce several unprecedented performances to challenge the strong Yale and Princeton squads. Furthermore, Crimson captain Ed Hamlin is suffering from a cold...
Exemptions from Gen Ed A must not become a matter of form. Gen Ed A administrators must insure that those who serve as their vicars do not neglect their students' writing as writing. Otherwise the original purpose of Gen Ed A will be sacrificed to the new goals of seminars...
...When Gen Ed A was instituted, the founders felt that all incoming students--no matter what their writing ability--could profit from a course in composition. The faculty's present attitude is one of preserving the original aims of the course--the development of coherent, lucid exposition--while recognizing that this objective may be obtained by several methods...
Whether accomplished through seminars or Gen Ed sections, the teaching of prose exposition must include as much individual consultation between teacher and students as possible. Present sections often fail in this respect. While it may never be possible to institute individual conferences instead of sections (Harold Martin, Director of Gen Ed A, stresses that the number of personnel that can be recruited is limited) there is need for more individual consultation than now exists. Perhaps experiments in decreasing the number of sections per term in order increase time for student-instructor conferences would help strengthen teaching...
Clearly, the General Education A program is in a state of flux with its changes reflecting the transformations in the Gen Ed program as a whole. Nevertheless, the objectives of the course must be preserved no matter under what form instruction is administered. The experiments with different methods of teaching are beneficial; the Gen Ed office, though, must insure that the ideal of instructing each individual student in developing logical and forceful prose is preserved...