Word: research
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aspects of student life at Wellesley. Much of what he says is extremely valid. However, from the viewpoint of a Wellesley girl (one in partial agreement with him), the strength of his arguments is lessened by the several inaccuracies that occur throughout the article and betoken haste and inaccurate research...
...discussing the "lack of concentration, of independent study," he has completely overlooked the possibilities of independent study in 350 work. 350 work consists of three to six hours of research or independent study. It may be elected in her major department by any student, whether she be an honor student nor not. The theses of which Mr. Kingson speaks, and the program under which they are written are specific Honors work for honor students only. It is for this reason that student eligibility is determined by a committee of the college...
...Bibl, three 19th century composers whose reputations were as truncated as their names. Nevertheless, K.T.&B. have an outspoken champion- Boston Composer-Musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky. Along with some 10,000 other menand women-about-music, the three have recently been embalmed in an impressive Slonimsky-built ossuary of pure research: the 1,855-page fifth edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (G. Schirmer...
...Psychiatrist Satten and his Topeka research team, it seemed that the murderous petty officer-listed in their records as "Thomas"-had temporarily and partially lost consciousness and suffered a kind of personality detachment. This jibed with Thomas' own statement: "I knew I was doing it, but it didn't seem like me. It was like watching myself doing it." In three other cases of sudden and apparently motiveless murder, the Topeka researchers got the same story of men blacking out and then seeming to be spectators at their own crimes...
...type tutorial system or more theses, would effect little change. Wellesley is a small college and can operate on different systems than can a large university. There are few lecture courses. Most of the work is done in sections, and seminar courses--common for upperclassmen--offer opportunities for individual research projects. The facilities exist for more than a spoonfed, reading-list-and-1500-word-paper education. Only the desire is absent...