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While the reforms were most loudly welcomed by rod-spared schoolchildren, they also stirred joy in English pubs, where a "single" Scotch or gin is usually one-sixth of a gill-barely enough, Britons grumble, to wet the glass. Henceforth, pubs will be allowed to dispense one-sixth, one-fifth or one-fourth of a gill.* But will be forced to display a sign saying clearly which measure they use. The greatest spur to thoroughgoing reform will undoubtedly be British membership in the European Common Market. In time, Englishmen may even order their mild-and-bitter by the liter...
...this motion, more familiarly known as the Gill plan, has had any effect other than an extensive rewording of Harvard's tutorial legislation, more students should be receiving General Studies degrees in fields which (like Government) had previously seen the senior thesis as the only way to an Honors degree. But is this really happening? This is the sort of question which Dean Monro's comments this afternoon can help answer...
...Department limited its program because it considered many students incapable of profiting from tutorial, which demands greater intellectual capabilities and interest than course instruction. However, as the Gill plan recognized, the intellectual level of the Harvard and Radcliffe student body has risen radically in the last decade. Where formerly many students would fail to appear for tutorial, fail to read the material or prove unable to handle the work-load, now hardly any lack the ability or motivation to perform well in tutorial...
...full agreement with both the reasoning and the specific proposals of the Gill plan, the History Department opened junior and senior tutorial to all concentrators in Group V and above who had done a satisfactory job in sophomore tutorial. The only stipulation was that in order to take History 99 a student must have completed History...
...Gill plan caused only one significant change in History and Literature's tutorial program: now more students who have failed their generals are allowed to write a thesis. Yet History and Literature, as well as the History Department, has proved the validity of Gill's main hypothesis: that almost all undergraduates at Harvard and Radcliffe can make good use of tutorial if given the opportunity...