Word: gens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...program is in general more drastic than General Education. Like Gen Ed, it centers on the first two years and organizes the curriculum into three basic divisions: the mathematical, physical and biological sciences; history and the social sciences; and literature and the fine arts. But unlike Harvard it does not permit a wide range of choice within each of the divisions. Every Lord Jeff freshman and sophomore with few exceptions must take exactly thhe same courses as all his classmates. Only one completely free elective is permitted before majoring begins in the junior year...
...Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer (ret.), an authority on the Far East, will speak on Red China before the Young Republican Club next Tuesday, John W. Stephens '55, president of the group, announced yesterday...
Certain members of the Class of '58 will be admitted to Gen Ed honors sections as soon as classes start in the fall. Martin said. To qualify for one of these sections, incoming freshmen will have to be in the top fifth of their class, and will also have to do well on an examination essay, which will be given during Orientation Week...
...advanced courses, they dogmatically state a vast number of facts, all necessary for further advancement, but worth little to the layman who will take only one course. Sometimes these facts are never mastered; frequently they are soon forgotten. Except where secondary school knowledge is required, science instruction in Gen. Ed. should sacrifice extensive coverage to gain depth. More can be learned through intensive consideration of a few cases, examined in the manner in which the original discoveries were made, than in a "survey" course in a field...
...Because so much ground is covered, these facts are frequently presented to novice scientists as dogma, with little discussion of the thought that preceded them. As a result, history serves more as a humanistic garnishing than as a means for the illumination of concepts. Especially in atomic physics, the Gen. Ed. courses over-simplify so much that the student may come to feel that scientists only plug numbers in formulae...