Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natural science requirement therefore should be based on reaching a minimum level of achievement, not on completing a year of work. Each of the course offerings should be organized so that the specific material offered, the substance of science, is constantly related to the methods and claims of scientific conceptualization...
Thus the natural science program could provide a basic level of math achievement and a certain working with science itself. To place science in its historical setting is a fine objective and might be valuably continued to some degree, but primary emphasis should be placed on learning science itself, not its cultural setting. Such a program as the above is no panacea to the problems attendant upon teaching science, but without sacrificing choice (since commitments to any particular course would be only for a semester, not a year), it offers a higher level of achievement. The demands and satisfactions...
Frederic Freilicher '60, H.L.U. treasurer, was elected national chairman of the newly-named "Campus Division of A.D.A.," an association of liberal political clubs centered in eastern colleges. Freilicher will belong to both the national board and the top-level executive board of the A.D.A., traditional positions for S.D.A. presidents...
...Seniors only led by two tutors from different fields. The groups would meet weekly to consider a broad topic appropriate to the group. These men, who by good performance and possibly by an essay, might merit a degree with Honors. Such groups would be organized primarily on the departmental level...
This program, which is under the Lacey-Zaroubin Cultural Exchange Agreement, formulated last year, will include men on the faculty level. Short lecture visits and longer stays for research will also be included, according to Fainsod...