Word: naturales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But the present Natural Sciences program does not seem the best way to endow the student with this basic knowledge. The non-science concentrator must be introduced into the process of hypothesis and experiment and must realize that the claims of science are limited: that measurement is always inexact; that...
The natural science requirement therefore should be based on reaching a minimum level of achievement, not on completing a year of work. Each of the course offerings should be organized so that the specific material offered, the substance of science, is constantly related to the methods and claims of scientific...
The third semester in such a natural sciences program could also be one of a number of offerings. A continuation of physics might go into basic electrostatics, electricity and the atomic model. Such a course would introduce the student to the implications of constructs as in field theory and raise...
Thus the natural science program could provide a basic level of math achievement and a certain working with science itself. To place science in its historical setting is a fine objective and might be valuably continued to some degree, but primary emphasis should be placed on learning science itself, not...
The idea for the joint arrangement came from Winthrop House tutors, who praised the mixed tutorial groups established this Fall. Owen pointed out that the Winthrop-Comstock combination was a "natural one," since Winthrop tutor Donald R. Brown serves, with his wife, as Head Resident of Comstock.