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...present revival of interest in course reduction follows recent expressions of the faculty's growing belief in the other factors of education besides formal course work. Recent statements by J. Peterson Elder, dean of the GSAS, and Kenneth B. Murdock'16, chairman of the Committee on General Education, suggested that courses and examinations be eliminated in the senior year...
David E. Owen, professor of History, was appointed to the Committee on Educational Policy in the absence of Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, for this Spring Term. Owen, a former chairman of the Committee on General Education, will become Master of Winthrop House next year...
...Chairman of the Committee on General Education, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, agreed in principle with Elder's ideas, favoring "more liberty for the more qualified student...
...Murdock felt that there should be no obstacle to studying without formal grades. He noted that it is possible to do so in the graduate school, with the school merely certifying that the individual has been studying...
...sooner in his course of study," Murdock said, "that a student can be free of requirements, the better," for he would then be able to study intensively what particularly interested him. "I don't think," he concluded, "that courses, examinations, and counting credits in themselves are particularly desirable...