Word: methodically
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...fundamentals. I don't think that's a very good description of what the Core is trying to do. What the Core is attempting to do is to define the most important elements of the liberal education, the most important intellectual skills and the most important ways and methods of apprehending the important areas of human experience, and make sure that everything in the Core is specifically designed to address one of those important goals, one important method of thought, one important intellectual skill. So that in that sense there's a greater emphasis on what we feel...
...tutorials. This year's effort--marshalled by Glen W. Bowersock '57, associate dean of the Faculty on undergraduate education, joins a long history of changes all directed at the same goal: increased Faculty involvement in tutorials. Sadly, all share the same weakness which dooms their potential for effectiveness: no method of enforcement...
...members as tutorial leaders that characterized past tutorial legislation. The earliest report on tutorials, in 1924, declared that professors were best suited in the teaching staff to lead individualized discussions. The report assumed that "every professor will wish to have such personal contact with his students as the tutorial method implies." But the legislation made no provisions for those professors who harbored no such wishes. Since 1924 the ranks of this disaffected group have enlarged dramatically...
Eloquent statements of purpose have not in the past moved departments to comply with tutorial legislation, and Bowersock's plan carries no more weighty method of enforcement. Bowersock defends his policy, explaining that, "enforcing was a word I never intended to use in connection with these reforms." Persuading, he adds, is a more appropriate approach. "We can't knock heads together in this University; that's not the way we work...
...when the only known source of X-rays in space was the sun (though astronomers suspected they would find other sources if they had the equipment to look for them), Riccardo Giacconi, then with American Sciences & Engineering and now a professor of Astronomy here, first proposed a method for using telescopes to take detailed X-ray photographs of distant objects...