Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only through this interaction, the report states, "can we achieve the true intellectual individuation of educated...
Best remedy for the College's failings, the report states is a return to tutorial for more of the undergraduates. The committee pleads not for any specific tutorial plan, but rather for that "intangible quantity, the tutorial idea. . . . As an ideal we see it gradually slipping from view...
...Houses were once intended to promote undergraduate education, the report says, but "the role of the Houses . . . has come out of focus." Three ways in which the Houses can live up to their original purpose, the committee states, are 1) the creation of intimate discussion groups, with "six to ten men, a case of beer, and an instructor or two"; 2) teaching of courses right in the Houses; and 3) centering tutorial and advisory in the Houses...
...Committee said its polls of student opinion showed great dissatisfaction with the lecture system. "It is by definition a one-way process," the report states, whose "one justification . . . is that it permits many students to come under the spell . . . of a great teacher...
...chapter titled "General Education--A Complete Answer?," the report criticizes the Administration for concentrating too much on the content of GE and other courses. Instead the College must come to "reconsider the more basic questions of personnel and incentives to actual learning...