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...problem is not so easy to solve as the statistics imply. "What we're really bickering about is a few intelligence points which don't really make much difference," Thomas F. Pettigrew, Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, points out. Almost all students at the two colleges are on the same high plane of scholastic ability, and each sex seems to have a particular arete in some field...
Scientific proof, according to Pettigrew, has demonstrated that girls tend to be more proficient in verbal skills, whereas boy's abilities tend toward quantitative aptitudes. This "genuine difference" results from "reinforcement." From earliest childhood, girls are "reinforced" in clear writing and expression; boys, on the other hand, are often directed toward more quantitative problems. This difference also helps to explain the girls' complaints that boys' interest are "profane"; boys tend to go into fields like math, chemistry, or psychology instead of more culturally oriented subjects like Fine Arts or Literature. "In the long run, however, this all works...
Compulsory Junior non-Honors tutorials will be abandoned, a policy followed by all other Departments, Thomas F. Pettigrew, assistant professor of Social Psychology, said yesterday. For non-Honors Seniors, tutorial groups without course credit will be organized in each House and at Radcliffe during the Spring, in preparation for General Examinations...
...similar movement took place in the Social Relations Department a few years ago, Thomas F. Pettigrew, head tutor in that department noted. Mixed Sophomore tutorial groups meeting in the Houses were instigated "not as a conscious policy of the Department, but because both boys and girls wanted...
Although there are not many mixed Sophomore groups this year, Pettigrew said a straw poll taken among Harvard Sophomores indicated a willingness to include girls in House tutorial sessions...