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...Departments of History and History and Literature exemplify the variety of ways in which different departments have implemented the Gill plan concerning tutorials and thesis writings. History, the largest department in the University, has followed the plan's provisions wholeheartedly and with great effect. In contrast, History and Literature, an all-honors field which has always leaned heavily on tutorial, has made few changes in its tutorial program since...
...relevant section of the Gill plan states that to be eligible for thesis work a student must complete junior tutorial with a grade of C minus or higher and also "satisfactorily fulfill such other requirements as the department may determine for its tutorial program." The English Department's provision calling for competence both in course grades and junior General Examination would clearly come under this heading of "other requirements;" and yet it is not at all clear that this is the sort of provision which the proponents of the Gill plan had in mind...
This difference of opinion on the way to decide which students can write theses is only one aspect of a fundamental difference between the English Department's conception of Honors and tutorial, and the conception held by the original proponents of the Gill plan. Basically, the Gill plan set up two programs--tutorial, and non-tutorial--both of which could lead to either Honors or non-Honors. Most of the students in the tutorial program would write Honors--calibre theses and would consequently receive some sort of Honors degree. But the theses turned in by some students would...
...Honors degrees. By the same token it does not expect many non-Honors candidates to get a degree with distinction. In short, the English Department believes in separating the Honors man from his non-Honors counterpart in a way that is as open, honest, and obvious as possible. The Gill plan proponents, who do not like the idea of making half the College into what they call "second-class citizens," prefer to let the students separate themselves into thesis-writers and non-thesis writers, with the final judgment between Honors and non-Honors being put off until June...
...difficult not to side with the Gill plan advocates. Admittedly, most of them are from fields in the Social Sciences and perhaps have no business attempting to tell a Department in another area how to run its internal affairs. The argument that in matters of tutorial English is fundamentally different from the Social Sciences seems especially strong if one remembers that for several years the English Department has been able to offer a useful and successful non-credit, non-Honors tutorial program, something which the Social Science fields, in general, have not been able to do. Nevertheless, the purpose...