Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ironic to note that today's Middle East crisis revolves around the area of the Garden of Eden-the Biblical birthplace of mankind? As present situations indicate, this very same spot could be the beginning of the end of mankind...
...true of most plays that some, if not all, of the characters undergo a big change by the time the final curtain is rung down. Here, curiously, every character is just the same at the end of the play as at the start. Yet this does not yield a vacuum. Events do transpire; and the essential elements of conflict and suspense are not lacking...
Before continuing, a few words as to the unique nature and position of Harvard's Honors program is perhaps in order. At the end of his Freshman year, a student signs up for Honors or for non-Honors. (This has been the practice until now; from now on, all Freshmen will be Honors candidates until they fail one of the three hurdles). The Honors student must take more courses than his non-Honors colleague, and is given, in many departments, individual tutorial. This consists of a weekly or fortnightly meeting with his tutor, when the two discuss the reading assigned...
...Review published a provocative issue on "Harvard 1956" which strongly advocates increased independent reading and small individual conferences between student and tutor (Harvard's name for an instructor who works with an individual or small groups outside the regular course plan). i.e. went so far as to demand an end to the lecture system, a suggestion at which most undergraduates balked, but generally the cry of i.e. was accepted as one bearing a good deal of merit. The CRIMSON itself came out repeatedly before and after this article with various plans for independent study, and the Faculty's powerful Committee...
...these sessions, a student is forced to think quickly and clearly; he may not just sit back and take notes. At the end of the term the tutor writes a report on his tutee, which from now on will be fairly strongly weighted in a deciding his Honors candidacy. This sort of relationship continues in Sophomore tutorial and Junior tutorial, although some departments will continue to have students tutored in groups; in Senior year, every Honors candidate meets individually with a tutor, under whose guidance he writes a thesis...