Word: generalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...focus. For nearly twenty years Cambridge elections have lacked the personal clash of two candidates putting not only their personalities but also their beliefs into clear opposition. Since the adoption of Plan E in 1945, no elected official has been able to say with certainty that his election represents general public acceptance of his policies...
...receiving CCA endorsement, these Councillors, regardless of their backgrounds and manner of their campaigns, have accepted, in general form, the goals of the Association's platform. They are not, of course, obligated to vote with the CCA on any issure at all, though they could lose endorsement or overzealous independence. And they have the further responsibility of initiating as well as supporting progressive legislation...
...decision to exempt certain freshman seminar students from General Education is a healthy experiment. In a step towards decentralizing instruction in freshman composition, approximately two thirds of the 180 students enrolled in seminars are fulfilling their composition requirement through their seminar writing...
...obscured under the exemption plan. Seminar leaders who offer to supervise the writing work of freshmen must be prepared to pay more-than-ordinary attention to students' writing. They must do more than grade and discuss paper as exercises within a specific discipline; they must work to develop students' general prose ability as well...
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...