Word: gens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, to clear up some misunderstandings: the CRIMSON did not refer to English A papers but to papers in other courses when discussing the worth of papers in the old days. secondly, Drs. Rhinelander and Graubard confuse the CRIMSON's gripes about Gen. Ed. Ahf with its criticisms of the standard General Education courses. A B papers gained by five hours work has no place in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences courses. But if the Confidential Guide questionnaires are accurate, they do crop...
...thing, there are too many of them. The average requirement of two General Education courses plus the compulsory Gen. Ed. Ahf affair runs to twenty papers a year--four times the usual upper class load. If Freshmen spent the four or five days their instructors say a typical G.E. theme needs, they would be pouring a third of their first year into papers alone...
...best route out of this rut is a system of fewer papers graded at a higher standard. At present, Freshmen write a short paper every two weeks for Gen. Ed. Ahf--on a subject usually unrelated to the rest of their work. If they could offer a Social Science or Humanities paper to Ahf in lieu of one of these two weeks assignments, a part of the paper load would disappear. The section man in the first course could comb the offering for content and ideas, the Ahf man for writing and expression...
They grew to know the campus. They interviewed professors with controversial views and coaches with controversial teams. They got free tickets to lectures and sporting events, where they had new exciting intellectual experiences. After a month of the CRIMSON they both received A's on their Gen Ed papers and by mentioning their section man in several stories they picked up A's in Chem...
Conant's nomination, together with that of Gen. Walter Bedell Smith as Undersecretary of State, will come before the Senate for confirmation tomorrow. Committee chairman Alexander Wiley R. Wis.) said he expected no difficulty...