Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On the other hand, the young psychologist Hugo Munsterberg, James' assistant, was the one who called Gertrude his ideal student. She participated animatedly in his seminars, as well as in those of George Santayana, who gave her new reading in the English philosophers. Other subjects she took included history, modern...
She stuck it out for four years; the first two interested her. She enjoyed doing research on the brain, enjoyed writing a comparative study which Dr. Llewellys Barger incorporated in his book. However, the faculty and students criticized her constantly, and, by the third year, Gertrude was overwhelmingly bored. Says...
Since the passage of the CEP proposals last spring, the question of non-honors tutorial has tended to degenerate into debates over the relative importance of Houses and departments, controversy on the concessions which can be allowed to non-honors students, and, in general, procrastinating argument. Yet the issue remains...
The inter-departmental committee itself could provide a basis for further desirable synthesis of fields; under its aegis interested honors students might work out cross-departmental programs of concentration.
A series of monographs discussing topics in physics not covered in formal classroom work will be published this fall. Phillippe E. LeCorbeiller, professor of Applied Physics, described the purpose of these monographs as an attempt to "have the most competent people write on a scientific subject in a way that...