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...That the present Natural Sciences program does not successfully surmount these problems is recognized by the University; the Bruner report itself is an attempt to remedy the situation. But the Bruner report offers little that is substantially new; it is somewhat paralyzed before the problems of teaching science in any meaningful way to an elementary audience...
...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 constructs it offers are not images of "reality" but working models for prediction; that statements are true until controverted by further sense data. The best way to appreciate this is not to learn about science but to learn science itself...
...Then why," I replied, "do I behold you in your present state of gradually decelerating decomposition...
...combining individual departments into a broad discussion group, non-Honors students in these fields, who now number about one-third of all students in a House, would actively participate in some form of the tutorial program. At present, these first two plans exclude the sciences and smaller fields such as Classics, which already have close student-faculty contact...
Campaign managers also hope to receive about 4,000 smaller gifts from alumni to make up the balance of the goal. At present 23,000 alumni, 50 per cent of the college's living graduates have donated to the Program--"an excellent record," according to Program fund raisers...