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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quincy House has often been cited as a challenge to the present rent system. Unless the identical suites in Quincy, the new House, are "artificially differentiated," said Dean Watson Tuesday, establishing a rent scale on the present model would be impossible...
...Geary and Frohock hope to institute the use of machines and modern methods into the intermediate courses within the near future, for they feel the situation here is even worse than in the elementary courses. "By the time, a student gets to his second year," Geary comments, "he is often sick and tired of languages. We should give them more differentiated courses at this level...
There is then the question of who is to teach these courses. The majority of the faculty teaching elementary courses are graduate students working for their Ph.D. (often in some totally unrelated course to the language they are teaching). As Francis M. Rogers, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, points out, "Everytime we find a particularly good elementary teacher, he just gets picked off to be a section man in French 20 or some other upper-level course. The result is that the elementary teaching never gets above a certain level...
...some workable solution to this essential problem or fall even further behind. A new theory now gaining acceptance is that the best elementary language teacher is a native of the country on which the course is focused. Such a man has a better insight into the language and will often do a better job than an American scholar twice...
Secondly, some students who need financial aid, but do not hold scholarships, very often apply for inexpensive rooms in their Houses. In this way, they save perhaps $100 a term. Under a single-rent plan, this type of saving would be impossible...