Word: parte
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what might be called the "tutorial" kind of workshop. Other examples could just as easily be drawn from the fields of anthropology, behavioral science, biology, chemistry, and history." All of these are seemingly alike in attempting to adapt to the freshman year educational procedures which are already a part of the Harvard...
Riesman will act as a kind of overall supervisor for his part of the Freshman Program. The six individual workshops under his charge will, in their day-to-day activities, be directed by Mrs. Dorothy Lee, Roger Hagan, Kenneth Keniston, Edward L. Pattullo, and Mrs. Susanne Rudolph. Mrs. Lee has outlined one likely project, to which people of all interests could make distinctive contributions. This is a discussion of "field theory," of the relationship (or "transaction") between the student and the material he studies. In the course of such a discussion, the physicist could relate the special problems of work...
Each of the associates plans to lead one or two groups, and to concentrate initially on a particular problem interesting and important to the group; after a few weeks he will steer the group into the "core reading," then will return to re-examine the original dilemma. An important part of Riesman's program is "cross-fertilization" through weekly dinners, where students will meet other staffmen and students from other sections, as well as guest speakers, and occasional joint workshop meet...
...interest in the organizational part has fallen, renewed and expanded discussion of theological questions has more than made up the deficit. Harvard Protestants have great epistemological concern, and do not hesitate to fire searching inquiries at their ministers--or at themselves...
...very large extent, however, the rejection of Protestantism may mark a part of individual maturation. Many students, not currently affiliated with any Protestant denomination, said they would rejoin after marriage. A full 95 per cent of the Protestants polled also indicated they would raise their children in their own religious tradition. Thus under the impact of college-age skepticism, many2