Word: gens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Planned Gen...
Scientists at the School of Public Health will soon attack the problems of old age, Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons (ret.), Dean of the School, announced...
...purpose of Gen. Ed. Ahf is not to learn how to write "purple prose," to "sling bull," or fill pages with a quota of words, but to strengthen the student's grasp of his native tongue, to smooth the wrinkles in his writing technique. In short, it is to do what no course in humanities, or even literature can be expected to do that is to offer the majority of those who will never darken the doors of Warren House the opportunity of improving their writing ability during the first two semesters at Harvard. Joseph M. Cronin...
...true that English A had far more papers than Gen, Ed. Ahf. But the writers fall to mention that English A was a fourth course, open to exemptions, while AHF is a compulsory fifth course. And the three-course G.E. requirement forces Freshmen to take courses with more research papers than in the days when the requirement was smaller or non-existent...
...CRIMSON is in essential agreement with Drs. Rhinelander and Graubard on the aims of Gen. Ed. Ahf. But "a closer relation. . . between a student's writing and the subject matter of his general courses" can be better accomplished if Freshman writing is integrated, not divided. Originally, Gen. Ed. Ahf was to relate composition to the Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences courses, and to give writing criticism to the type of papers written in other courses. Insofar ad Ahf veers from this original purpose, it is weakened. Insofar as it can better adhere to it, it will be strengthened...