Word: junior
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Abolition of non-Honors junior tutorial is being considered among faculty members as part of an overall discussion of upperclass curriculum reform...
This suggestion was raised at a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences earlier in the term, along with a number of other complementary and contradictory proposals. Many professors feel, one Faculty member said yesterday, that "non-Honors junior tutorial in several departments is not really very successful--we just wonder how we can improve...
Another suggestion, reportedly made by the Administration, urges that the Honors program itself be considered "a prize" for which competent students might "compete." A proposed form of competition is a qualifying examination, similar to the one given junior concentrators in History and Literature, or History...
...expect of him. This system will perpetuate the department's high standards, but it will also perpetuate some undesirable ones. To avoid a closed room type of intellectual atmosphere, a department could demand that its members spend at least a year teaching at other universities. At present, when a junior faculty members accepts an appointment at another university, he is rarely considered a few years later for a professorship--even if his record at Harvard was outstanding...
Last night's Kirkland House production of The Alchemist scored a tremendous comical sucess. Three centuries have not dimmed the bawdy wit of Ben Jonson, and the whole production delighted a near-capacity audience in the Junior Common Room...