Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel the traditionalists have the best case. Admittedly the ratio system has worked well in the Natural Sciences. But this reflects the peculiarities of that area, not the inherent advantages of the system. In the sciences, general education means training in the methods of science. Often departmental courses can impart, as well as can Gen Ed courses, an understanding of the scientific method...
...them. I am sure that I said something to the effect that I was amazed at the sophistication in social theory of my incoming students. I most certainly did not say they were fantastically sophisticated, nor did I say that this applied to all aspects of social theory and method. Most of them are quite good on social theory, know a bit about methodology, and nothing about method. The point of this, however, is not to berate your reporter but to suggest that there is an important body of material to be studied in junior tutorial, to remedy deficiencies which...
...very well the boarding school," deserves a nod of agreement and a sigh. Lee Grove, a young man distressed by what old men think, rates a prize for non-sequiturs and bad puns. Kevin Lewis, who has written two poems about vapid lives, could be accused of writing method poetry...
...junior tutorial centred around problem area (e.g. "industrial societies") rather than methodological or disciplinary themes. To give all the students a common core of knowledge, however, the Committee on Social studies provided a sophomore tutorial covering the "writings of leading social scientists of the past" and "the problems of method common to the social sciences...
...year. But, where some students several years ago condemned the course as "utterly confusing and aimless," today's sophomores appear content. And Michael Mazer, a junior year tutor in the Program, found his incoming students last September "fantastically sophisticated and well-prepared in all aspects of social theory and method...