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...department rejected the plan, however, because they hesitated to destroy the "freer relationship" of a non-credit course, Constable said. Before going to the "extreme" of awarding credit, the department will experiment with the present relationship, where the tutorial has more weight in the department but "will retain its freedom as far as University Hall is concerned...
...most fundamental problem is that many students do not accept the idea of a Radcliffe community: they feel closer ties to Harvard. Although RGA can organize non-credit seminars, living room talks and even discuss academic improvements, Harvard will always retain control of the classroom...
Pappenheimer and Leighton agreed that the non-credit seminars now offered in their Houses are very successful. Yet, they doubted that the giving of credit seminars or courses would be compatible with the House system as presently organized...
Perkins not only opposed the idea of instituting credit courses in the Houses, but also questioned the value of Lowell House's non-credit seminars. "The House is complementary to the curriculum, but it is not supposed to be used as an instrument of instruction," he explained...
...other Faculty members shared his concern with the problem of integrating education with the House system. They suggested, however, that non-credit seminars and a strong tutorial program might be given by the House more easily than any credit course now in existence...