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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...addition, three members of the Council will present reports based on investigations independent of the questionnaire. Their subjects are: student-faculty relations seminars and preparations for generals, and the exam system...
...concentrators must for more intensive work select a special field from a group of 16 (sixteen). Honors candidates, who normally survive seven or eight courses in the field, take at the end of the junior year a two-part exam consisting of three questions to be chosen from four major chronological and geographical areas. True to its tradition, the department sees to it that one of the three questions must be on a pre-1700 topic. Men not attaining a satisfactory grade on this exam are dropped from the honors program...
...second part of the exam consists of one essay chosen from several options and is designed to test more particularly the student's comprehensive knowledge of history and his ability to think critically on historical generalizations. At the end of the senior year, honors men also have a special field exam and, at the option of the Examiners, an oral exam...
...same exam requirements hold for non-honors candidates, except that both the departmental and the special field tests come at the end of the senior year. An additional oral exam may also be required. Honors theses are submitted prior to the special field exams. Tutorial for credit for three half-courses is offered to juniors and seniors who are honors candidates. A knowledge of French or German is advisable for honors...
Morison, Merk, and Schlesinger handle American history with authority. The American history question on the departmental exam can be answered after taking Merk's History 61a, one of the most rewarding half-courses in the department. Blake's course on the Byzantine Empire of Bruck's on Roman Law is the answer to the ancient or medieval question on the exam...