Word: jointed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Joint instruction has its roots deep in the past. Some one hundred and seventy years ago, a group of young ladies gathered in Cambridge to reap the educational benefits of Harvard. For more than a decade, this experiment meant nothing more formal than more or less random studying with the College faculty; but in 1784 the first diplomas were awarded to "Annex" students, and Radcliffe set up in business officially...
...result of this view, which apparently prevailed in the Faculty, the first steps were taken during the war toward Joint Instruction. The basic principle involved in this and in later steps is not only one of expediency but also of duty. Dean Buck feels now--as he did then--that such a University as Harvard "must not be limited in its objectives as is a college like Williams or Amherst." Harvard has a definite duty to teach women, he feels, "Unless we choose to ignore half the population...
With classrooms definitely under permanent joint regimes, thoughts of some have turned to coeducational exams. Backers of the plan argue that similar exam conditions would equalize results; opponents, on the other hand, are firm in maintaining the value of segregation...
...separate a few of the largest courses again. It might be advisable in a few cases." A solution such as this might lead to one obvious trouble, which Dean Buck mentioned in another context--that teachers would have to give a course twice under that arrangement, whereas the joint system removes that old and formerly prevalent evil...
...lectures, while perhaps discomfiting the monitoring system, has produced no real complaints on this side of the Common. "It's just a case of the marginal student being sacrificed to the marginal Radcliffe girl," comments David Murray, Jr. '47, a Senior whose curriculum has included a fistful of joint courses...