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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...study of atheltic ethics, the group has corresponded with such notables as Lou Little, the Associated Press "Coach of the Half Century," and W. Barry Wood '31, vice-president of Johns Hopkins and "prototype of the scholar-athlete...
Arthur Smithies, Chairman of the Department, met frequently this summer and again this fall with a Department Committee on Undergraduate Education appointed last spring. Headed by Professor Dunlop, members of the group are Professors Chamberlain, Duesenberry, and Meyer, Assistant Professors Gill and Lefeber, and instructors Baer and Berman...
...most perplexing problems facing the Department occur in the area of the middle group courses. To some extent they are aggravated by the Department's quantative approach to the number of concentrators, with its concern to retain the marginally interested student within the Department. And again the nature of the field, with its disparity between advanced professional techniques and an undergraduate approach, intensifies the problem that confronts many other departments in the College--that of withstanding the polar attractions of pre-professional orientation or of superficiality. Concerning the middle course group area, Dunlop's committee has only just begun...
...Another group in Department, however, voices the opinion that the College student should not clutter his schedule with pre-professional courses, but rather use his time to study such fields as music, literature, and mathematics. If a student does do graduate work later in economics he will have no trouble picking up whatever advanced analytic tools he needs at that time, while if he does not intend to do so there is no sense in wasting his time with a lot of specialized technique, this bloc maintains...
...comforts of modern living; and since the Master has foresworn any methods smacking of coercion, he probably cannot select a certain number to move from the House into Mather. At the same time, the suggested solution of moving Quincy students into Mather from Claverly singles out a small group which should receive better rooms. Having suffered for a year in Claverly's creaking suites, they deserve to move into the new building...