Word: rhinelandere
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Extensive course changes in General Education have been tentatively scheduled for next year, Philip M. Rhinelander '29, Director of General Education, announced yesterday.
Rhinelander said that there would be a movement throughout most of the elementary courses in General Education to pare the reading lists to meet freshman reading speeds.
113,115,122,123, and 130 a and b will all be bracketed. Rhinelander said that duties as master of Eliot House will prevent Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, from giving Humanities 130.
Phillip H. Rhinelander '29, Director of General Education, sees the plan for advanced placement as a flexible system which will meet diverse needs. Under the Placement provision, the CEP would allow qualified students to begin in advanced, rather than elementary, General Education courses.
Rhinelander warned, however, against exempting so large a number from the elementary courses that the basic General Education program becomes a burden or penalty. He felt that only a small number of men will be exempted and that each advanced placement case must be considered on an individual basis. "We...