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...professionals gathered in Caltech's Dabney Hall in Pasadena were well qualified to speak on the subject. Among them: M.I.T.'s President James R. Killian Jr., Caltech's President Lee A. Du-Bridge, M.I.T.'s Dean (engineering) Carl Richard Soderberg, Caltech's Physicist and Mathematician Robert F. Bacher, M.I.T.'s Gordon S. Brown (electrical engineering). Almost without exception M.I.T. and Caltech freshmen are the scholastic cream skimmed off the top 10% of national high school enrollment. "It's the rare Caltech student whose IQ falls below 130," explained Psychologist Weir. "The average...
...same effect might be achieved by letting a student skip his bachelor's degree and go straight on in four years to get his master's, suggested M.I.T.'s Brown. M.I.T.'s Killian had an even more provocative suggestion: unfettered academic freedom for a small, experimental group of hand-picked freshmen, "a complete tutorial system, in which the boys are allowed to develop under the direction of a volunteer group of faculty members, to proceed without requirements to attend classes, and be expected at the end to meet the requirements for graduation." Said Killian: "Their motivations...
When President Killian mentioned in his most recent annual report that Harvard and M.I.T. are combining in a joint program to improve instruction in the sciences, he put the Institute a step further from the former hostility between the two schools...
...last fall President Killian, the Provost, several deans and professors, and members of the Corporation held a day-long session with the Graduate Student Council and Graduate House representatives. The topic: In what directions should the Graduate School move...
...decisions on the management of M.I.T.'s 71-million dollar endowment--the fifth largest private university endowment in the country--must be made by President Killian and Provost Julius A. Stratton...