Word: gill
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Departments will continue to be arbitrary, and sometimes unfair. The Gill plan may represent some apotheosis of departmental consensus, but the CRIMSON has been at pains lately to point out the difference between the (good) program in Social Relations and the (evil) program in English. Departments will always find ways to flatten luckless seniors, just as they used to refuse to recommend for Honors in General Studies...
...Gill, now an assistant professor of Economics and the head tutor in Ec 1, got a full-scale dose of the problems of college administration very quickly after graduating from Harvard. In 1950, after studying a year abroad on a Henry fellowship, he began work as assistant dean of the College, under Wilbur J. Bender. Harvard had not yet instituted the Allston Burr Senior Tutorships in the Houses, and so the administrative chores for the entire College were handled in University Hall. The load was not, as it is now, divided between the various House offices; and it naturally presented...
...most impressive feat of Mr. Gill's work at Harvard did not concern the problems of shepherding individual students through the maze of requirements and restrictions which impedes their progress toward a degree. Rather, it was to supply much of the initiative for a rather fundamental revision in the College's tutorial programs...
Primarily because he felt that the academic calibre of the average Harvard student had risen high enough to lessen the need for an artificially imposed Honors-non-Honors distinction, Gill suggested that the choice of whether or not to write a thesis should be left to the students themselves. After discussing the idea with several members of the Committee on Educational Policy, he set about the intricate task of writing down the exact provisions that would most satisfactorily embody the idea, and of convincing the other members of the Faculty that the idea was a good one. Though the "Gill...
...Gill will take over the Leverett Mastership in the beginning of next summer. In part, he hopes to administer the House on the same principle which he worked from during the past two or three years--that Harvard students today are intelligent and ought to make their own decisions. In his words, "The House should give a feeling of support, rather than impose a pattern, on ventures taken up by the undergraduates." He considers the most important benefit the House system can offer a student to be the contact with other undergraduates, and he sees the dining hall conversation, perhaps...