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Ever since 1945, the University Committee on General Education has been trying to integrate freshman English with other fields of learning. Thus far, both English A and General Education A have failed to attain this goal. The worth of English A depended on the enthusiasm of the individual instructor who usually assigned material which was not related to other freshman courses. Students wrote on anything in order to satisfy the weekly theme requirement. As a result, most failed to carry over the drilling in writing technique to their term papers and exams. General Education A tried to remedy the ills...
Like all section courses, this one will stand or fall with the instructor. Aside from one scheduled meeting every week, individual conferences must play a very important part in ironing out writing difficulties. Instructors of this course should be especially willing to give personal attention because, as the experiment of General Education A has shown, the principals of composition cannot be learned solely from reading rules and looking at a projector screen...
...Spokane, Wash., Austrian-born Ski Instructor, and former fire extinguisher salesman, Hans Hauser, husband of gangland's Glamour Girl Virginia Hill, asked U.S. immigration officers for permission to leave his home, take his wife and child south to teach skiing in Chile...
Horatio Hunnewell, a well-to-do young man at the turn of the century, fell in love with a Wellesley math instructor. She, however, was more attached to her work, and refused to marry him. As a constant reminder to her, he had these gardens laid out on his estate where she could see them constantly, and, he hoped, blame herself for ruining his life...
After a reading of the Student Council's report on theatrical conditions here by Warren Brody '53, head of the committee that studied the problem, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Thornton Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton, Professor of Poetry, and Donald Oenslager '23, instructor in drama at Yale, discussed the place of a theatre here...