Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago, Stein headed their exceptionally successful modern language program, so well that Levin deems him "the best man in the country for teaching beginning German." He teaches two sections, one in German B and one in German C, and an upper-level course; he also heads a group of five instructors and fifteen part-time assistants ("all in training to become language teachers") concerned with lower-level German instruction. Stein came to Harvard convinced of the value of the direct method of instruction, and in the last year he has made several significant changes within the department. Most important...
...quadrangle, says Lippincott, will be "roughly comparable to those on Prospect Street." While membership in the new quad requires only an application to the Dean's Office, admission to an eating club, however, is through a secret election. But Lippincott insists that Princeton undergraduates do not regard any group as "second-class citizens, or a group set apart." Woodrow Wilson Lodge contains a "damn good, sound cross-sectional group," he says...
...reports last February, the CEP said "It is to be hoped that for each field of concentration a program of group tutorial or small discussion sessions might develop in the Houses for non-Honors seniors," but it specified no officials to initiate such a program. In another part of the report, the Committee stated that "it hopes that each department will be prepared to implement" a non-Honors program, "different from that for Honors, but respectable in its own right." Although both the Houses and the Departments were thus vaguely implicated, neither was assigned the duty of proposing a specific...
Much discussion yesterday reportedly centered on the National Science Foundation Act, which requires an affidavit not administered directly by the University. According to one Faculty member, a sizable group would favor withdrawal from this program too, were it not for the "hardship" that would be inflicted on students already receiving NSF funds...
...main portion of the research, however, will start with the Class of 1964. After pinpointing the psychological variables this year, the members of the project will choose a sample group from '64 and follow them through four years at Harvard. By means of tests, interviews, and the like, the researchers hope to chart the changes in each individual...