Word: programers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combination of reinvigorated sections and new seminar-type offerings for students meeting lower level Gen Ed requirements could restore much of the intellectual excitement which the program should offer the freshman. Such changes should be instituted not with the intention of manufacturing freshman scholars, but with the goal of producing genuine thinking instead of the receptive absorption which is too often the fruit of General Education...
...recent flurry of suggestions on freshman year and reports that the Administration plans to make some changes in the freshman program next fall is highly encouraging. While the faculty has recast honors tutorial it has so far done little about improving freshman education and non-honors tutorial. The innovations forecast for at least the former will indeed be welcome...
Freshman year can undoubtedly be made a more rewarding academic introduction for new students. Lecture courses offer too often only a cold commentary on the great works and ideas which the General Education program is supposed to present. Lectures, in literature and social sciences especially, if not downright boring, do not permit interchange of ideas between students or between student and teacher. Sections, which are provided to remedy this deficiency, are too often a waste of time; the general pattern is that the few students who are prepared conduct a dialogue with the section man while other students doodle quietly...
...idea of sections is not at fault; potentially they offer much that is valuable. Proposals that there should be a "seminar" program recognize that questions in literature and political theory, for instance, should be picked apart in discussion. A strengthening of the present sections and introduction of seminar-type courses should thus be attempted...
Leverett House has announced four awards in its second annual competition in creative writing. The contest is part of the House's Ford Foundation grant program...