Word: programs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original Briggs-Copeland program, which was started in the early 1930's employed many instructors who have since grown to national prominence. Notable examples are Professor Mark Schorer of the University of California, Professor Wallace Stegner of Stanford, and Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Wilbur...
...English Department is planning to revive the Briggs-Copeland program for instruction in composition, Walter J. Bate '39, Chairman of the Department, announced Thursday...
Under the program, promising young writers interested in teaching will be hired to instruct University students interested in writing. Later this year the Department "hopes to recommend the appointment" of an assistant professor and an instructor in composition...
...continued absence of a non-Honors tutorial program for juniors and seniors is harmful both because it tends to strengthen the College's division into intellectual have's and have not's, and because it deprives many students of an educational opportunity from which they might benefit greatly. Many of the students who leave the Honors program do so, not because of incapability or laziness, but because they prefer to follow interests they consider more rewarding than academic specialization. But tutorials opportunities for informal discussion and close contact with a tutor can profit these students as well as those...
...addition to offering non-Honors students beneficial tutorial opportunity, the program could point the way to new interdepartmental combinations, valuable for the both Honors and non-Honors study. Because of its many advantages, the non-Honors program should be brought from the realm of utopian discussion to that of practical planning and implementation...