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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last year Wald applied his procedure to researching color-blindness, using volunteers drawn primarily from his Nat Sci 5 course. His experiments revealed, he said. "The answer to color blindness is absurdly simple,"--each of the color-blind volunteers possessed only two of the three essential pigments, he said...
...Harvard Policy Committee is gauging student interest in several possible Nat Sci courses at the request of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The HPC is distributing questionaires, circulating petitions, and conducting interviews in several houses and Radcliffe dorms...
Overwhelming interest in Nat Sci 112, which brought some 150 students to the first meeting of a course designed for 30, encouraged the Division to propose outlines for several further general education offerings. Edward T. Wilcox, chairman of the General Education Committee, has been urging a wider course selection in this area...
Students who have taken Bio 2 or Nat Sci 5 should be able to understand the material in the tutorial. These courses are not now considered definite prerequisites, but the Undergraduate Committee may vote to make them so later this spring...
Chalmers' efforts to create a small community of scholars is apparent in the new House programs that he has introduced and in his own methods of teaching. He initially offered Nat Sci I, for instance, as a regular lecture course with sections, one of which he taught himself; this year, however, he is giving the course to ten Winthrop men as a House seminar. Converting the course into a seminar was not merely a negative reaction to impersonal teaching methods, to the round of lectures, exams, and office hours that characterizes the greater part of Harvard education. Chalmers also sees...