Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four years, as Professor Jones has suggested. But the Plan's California angels are not going to continue shelling out twenty-five thousand dollars a year if no concrete results can be shown before 1942. The History Program must be oriented in one of two opposite directions: into the formal curriculum, or into a new realm of extra-curricular education...
...education, with emphasis on personal contact, small groups, informality, and with less stress on examinations. On the other side it may be argued that the giving of course credit would not necessarily increase participation. Moreover, an experimental course faces the real danger of becoming a notorious snap, particularly if formal check-ups are minimized. And the very incorporation into the curriculum might at the outset kill any experimentation with the slow poison of required reading lists and hour exams...
...Plan on an extra-curricular basis also has its drawbacks. It may reach only a handful of students each year. And it will inevitably face stiff competition from other activities. On the other hand here is a chance for a new technique in teaching, freed from marking, credits, and formal sanctions. The increasing participation in the Program during this year augurs well for the future...
...upperclassmen let the Plan be an experiment in self-education. President Conant himself has said the student must "learn that formal instruction is no necessary part of the educational process." The study of American civilization is particularly fitted for such an experiment; in seeking behind his personal experience for the underlying forces that make American civilization, an undergraduate may learn that not all knowledge is to be found in textbooks, syllabi, and lecture notes...
...Harvard he will have a roving commission without formal allegiance to any one faculty. He will probably be concerned with both the Department of English and the School of Education, giving no formal courses, but making himself available to students for informal instruction. He will be an associate of Eliot House...