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Professor Samuel A. Stouffer and head tutor Joseph A. Kahl were in charge of the project. At the beginning of the term, each concentrator was asked to fill out an anonymous questionnaire before his tutor signed his study card, and over 95 percent of the students complied...
Since Katz's study the department's enrollment has dropped from 500 to 360, and Kahl attributes the decrease to two factors: the levelling effect of a new and unweildly department finally reaching a period of stability, and the stepped-up program of General Education which allows fewer freshmen to take Social Relations...
...course the department has gotten smaller," Kahl says, "but it may not be smaller than it ought to be, because we really cannot say what would be a normal enrollment." In the years following the department's inception in '46 it grew large very quickly. It was a new field that offered a broad program of study, and at its peak in the class of '50, the department was drawing an over large number of men who were not vocationally interested in the subject matter. These were students who were looking for a general education at a time when...
...Kahl substantiated the first conclusion by saying that on the questionnaire 25 percent of the respondents signified that they received better grades in courses outside the department than in Social Relations. Fifty-nine percent of the students said they got about the same marks inside the field as out, and only 12 percent claimed better records in their departmental work...
...Students like professors who approach the world the way they do," Kahl continued, and the value of a course and professor not only depends on the professor's personality and competence, but on the subject matter, and the interest and personality of the student. There can, he said, be no "best" professor, of course...