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Proposals within the History Department to make sophomore tutorial a credit course were sharply criticized yesterday by Oscar Handlin, Winthrop Professor of History...
...Handlin declared that merely giving a grade will not improve the tutorial program, because the curriculum of sophomore history tutorial "is out of date and must be revised...
...History tutors already give grades secretly within the Department," Handlin noted, "and if students could be terrified by the prospect of a grade, the present system should be adequate...
...Paul Buck, who was Dean of the Faculty under President Conant, is writing an introduction on the history of exams at Harvard. Franklin Ford, the present Dean, will also be a contributor, along with Stanley Hoffmann, Gerald Holton, George Goethals, Mrs. Bunting, David Reisman, Sanford Lakoff, Sam Beer, Oscar Handlin, John Monro, and others. The finished essays should be before the CEP by Christmas and will be reviewed by the full Faculty sometime during the spring...
Secondly, the lecture can be an important tool in the lecturer's learning process, and has served as the proving ground for many a book. Oscar Handlin, professor of History, notes that lectures are an excellent arena in which to test one's ideas. He reports that he often begins a lecture thinking he has the answers, but by the time he reaches the end he sees that they weren't such good ideas after all. "It's easy to come up with what look like sound theories in your head," he says, "but when you try to convince...