Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cooperative regional planning for lecture and concert attractions which otherwise would never venture into the grass-roots. Commission II (Student Publications and Student Government) will, in a sense, trail-blaze for NSO itself when it seeks to formulate ways for rendering student governments functional rather than merely honorifle. Commission III (Educational Opportunities and Discrimination) might adopt the suggestion for a national employment counseling service to beat the "closed shop" dilemma confronting many men and women of minority race or religion in professional and other fields. Commission IV (Educational Standards and Curricula) should attempt to gain united student support for increased...
...success of a world trade conference two years ago, but it has steadily faded. If trade is to be really free, not merely a scaling down of tariffs is needed but a major surgical operation. I see no prospect of that now." To this man, World War III has already begun-not as a shooting war but as a competition between socialism and capitalism. The outcome would depend on how the U.S. harnesses its productivity and distributes its prosperity. If the U.S. succeeded, capitalism would indeed be catching, and the shooting phase need never begin...
...intend to give the impression that the History Department was not tutoring Sophomores. Actually we are tutoring all Sophomores of Group III standing. The only respect in which we are not tutoring to the full extent permitted by Faculty vote is in the case of Group IV Sophomores whom Departments may, under Faculty policy, tutor half the year. David E. Owen, Chairman, Department of History...
...interplay between student and faculty which tutorial's old Oxford-Cambridge-type individual instruction could extend. At present the only departmental criterion of a student's aptitude and interest in tutorial seems to be that of grades--usually by means of a line drawn at the bottom of Group III. But letter grades and receptivity do not always walk hand in hand. The invaluable aid which face-to-face instruction can provide, especially in the social studies, should warrant placing tutorial on a voluntary rather than an academic basis, opening it to all save that fraction whose indifference is congenital...
...inferior onesChemistry None Compact course integration, and lab hours do work of tutorialClassics To Half of concentrators Favor unlimited tutorialComparative Philology No regular tutorial Tutorial help given "as an extra" in small departmentEconomics None Will reconsider tutorial next yearEngineering Sciences None Lab work sufficesEnglish Groups I, II, and III No increase plannedFar Eastern Languages Small classes provide teacher-student relationshipThe Fine Arts Questionnaire not yet receivedGeology and Geography None Tutorial not necessaryGermanic Languages Honors Seniors and as much other tutorial as possible Favor full-scale tutorialGovernment Honors Seniors, Juniors above Group IV, and Sophomores for one term Favor "full tutorial...