Word: presents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Gen Ed A was instituted, the founders felt that all incoming students--no matter what their writing ability--could profit from a course in composition. The faculty's present attitude is one of preserving the original aims of the course--the development of coherent, lucid exposition--while recognizing that this objective may be obtained by several methods...
Whether accomplished through seminars or Gen Ed sections, the teaching of prose exposition must include as much individual consultation between teacher and students as possible. Present sections often fail in this respect. While it may never be possible to institute individual conferences instead of sections (Harold Martin, Director of Gen Ed A, stresses that the number of personnel that can be recruited is limited) there is need for more individual consultation than now exists. Perhaps experiments in decreasing the number of sections per term in order increase time for student-instructor conferences would help strengthen teaching...
More than half of the respondents said they would be willing to trade two afternoons a week for a two-hour extension on Friday night. Over 85 per cent preferred a two hour extension to the present system...
...City Council, CCA-endorsed incumbents include former Mayor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, former Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, and Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler. Present Mayor Thomas M. McNamara often voted with these Councillors during his two-year term, frequently giving the CCA a slim majority on the Council. Yet solidarity among the CCA bloc is by no means assured, and is frequently non-existent...
Political foreshadowings indicate all four CCA-endorsed incumbents will win re-election. The CCA hopes to supplant one of the five present independents, several of whom trailed the ticket two years ago. The Association's leading candidate for this fifth slot is Edward T. Sullivan, elected with CCA support to the School Committee...