Word: nash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leonard K. Nash '39, professor of Chemistry and General Education, last night strongly questioned the practicality of Dean Monro's proposals for freshmen seminars. Nash expressed doubts that such a program of small group instruction would be "economically feasible" in the freshman year...
Alarmed at the growth of "vocationalism," Monro last month suggested that seminars might give a freshman a greater feeling of intellectual participation than a 50-minute prepared lecture. At the core of the seminar would be a freshman "thesis." Speaking to the last point, Nash noted that freshmen already face a plethora of term papers...
...Nash pointed out that the "great men" necessary to operate such seminars successfully would be overloaded, and thus unable to spend enough time with each group of students. Though he noted that freshmen "mature faster if you treat them as mature students," Nash wondered "just how mature first year college students really are--even Harvard students...
...course, Natural Sciences 4, Nash assigned a term paper months before it was due, asking students to prepare a rough draft and consult him. "Out of about 10 students," he said, "only five ever showed up, and many probably didn't begin preparation until the day before...
Leonard K. Nash, associate professor of Chemistry, who gives Nat. Sci. 4, said that "if any sweeping changes are going to be made in the Natural Sciences, I am not going to make them. I hope, of course, to improve my course, but I will not make any changes because of recent developments," he added...