Word: gilles
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Intentions being important, Professor Gill's proposal for revision of tutorial and Honors merits praise. But in 14 specific proposals, only the change in General Studies and abolition of the Honors-non-Honors dichotomy will make any difference...
Most important, the new Dean should implement more flexible concentration requirements. Professor Gill's recent proposals present one attractive alternative. Tutorial would be open, in effect, to any student desiring it, and the "second-class citizen," the non-Honors candidate, would not be discriminated against...
Honors in General Studies would be revivified under Professor Gill's plan. Uniform requirements would supplant the current confusion about cum laude in General Studies. At present, departments have adopted widely differing policies about nomination for the degree; should the Faculty legislation pass, a candidate for Honors in General Studies must receive Honor grades in his field of concentration and two subsidiary fields...
Robert L. Wolff '36, Chairman of the Department, said that he and most members of the staff found the proposal "reasonably practical." Under the plan, suggested by Richard T. Gill '48, Senior Tutor of Leverett House, all students would be eligible for tutorial; and Honors students would be distinguished from non-Honors students only at the completion of all College work. Students who have 11 1/2 Honor grades could also be graduated with cum laude in General Studies, without the permission of a Department...
Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, was said to have certain reservations about the new proposal. Reached yesterday, Hammond did not elaborate on any objections he might have had, but said that he thought that the Gill program would be approved by the Faculty. The Faculty postponed action on the plan earlier so that the Departments could discuss...