Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main reason we recommend at least one more course in the Humanities and the Social Sciences is not, as you suggest in your first editorial, that the sections are too big, but that the lectures and the courses themselves...
...your third editorial you imply that we base our recommendation regarding the number of elementary courses that should be required solely on the opinions expressed in our student questionnaire. Student opinion is certainly relevant, and it may be that more students will prefer three courses as the courses improve. It is also true, as we state, that student opinion will be more relevant when the views of those who have been required to take three courses are known. But in addition to student opinion, there are other bases of our recommendation. The elementary Natural Science courses appear to be rather...
...Cumberland had taken careful precautions (cotton gowns for the surgeons, metal chains on the anesthetic machine), its operating-room floor was tile, and lacked a grounded grid of conductive material, e.g., copper, to drain off static electricity. The U.S. Bureau of Mines and the National Board of Fire Underwriters recommend that operating-room floors be grounded in some such way. But there is no uniform code, and doctors disagree about what is safest...
...recommend ... that so far as possible, papers in G.E. be designed to relate what a student has learned to his own experience. Backed up by examples and instructors' comments, this includes a suggestion that no maximum length be set for essays. The recommendation is based first on the poll, which indicated that students considered papers of small interest and of less importance toward understanding the courses. Beyond this, it rests on the assumption that essays can be as worthwhile as many instructors claim. There is no refuting the statistic's importance; if papers do not help students understand a course...
...recommend that regular, informal seminars ... including the section men and the lecturer be initiated in the G.E. courses. The worth of training section men for their duties, as well as he necessity of selecting the best instructors possible for section posts, is self-explanatory...