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...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...
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...
...single crystals and the discoverer of a method of growing double crystals and studying the boundaries between them. After joining the Harvard faculty in 1953, he was named Gordon McKay Professor of Metallurgy and spent most of his time working in research with graduate students. A freshman seminar and Nat Sci I, "Energy in Science and Technology," which he volunteered to give in '61, provided his first experiences in undergraduate teaching. Chalmers was "a little surprised" when he was named to replace David Owen as Winthrop's Master only four years later. But he made the transition without much difficulty...
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...
Chalmers' impeccable British reserve doesn't entirely conceal a man who is wreaking a revolution upon Harvard's House system. This year's experiment with a "House course," Nat Sci I, an acknowledged success. Master Chalmers hopes to add another course to the House curriculum next year--a lower level Soc. Sci on current problems in American government, economics, and sociology...