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Student Council interpretation of its recent study on General Education made the program appear considerably more unsuccessful than it really is, Phillip H. Rhinelander '29, executive secretary of the committee on General Education, said yesterday.
Rhinelander, Lecturer in Humanitles 4, added however, that both he and the committee considered the study a "very conscientious, careful job." He said that not only were they considering all its recommendations very carefully, but would welcome a similar study after G.E. develops further.
Contrary to the feeling of the Student Council, which thought that "the attainments of G.E.'s basic aims cannot be said to be very great," Rhinelander thinks that the effect of the study is in general "favorable." He added that although it is really too early to evaluate the overall...
Rhinelander differs most strongly with the Council's interpretation in the matter of student opinion on the general aims of General Education.
Rhinelander thinks that this data does not quite justify the conclusion that G.E. is unsuccessful because students think that they are survey courses. He points out that the important result is not that 34 percent picked the aims of a survey course, but that 65 percent--the aggregate of the...