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...annual report to the faculty, delivered last week, Edward T. Wilcox, Director of Advanced Standing in Harvard College, suggested that "the relationship of Advanced Placement to General Education should be reconsidered." Wilcox pointed out that advanced placement concentrators in the Natural Sciences are exempt from the lower level Nat. Sci. requirement, but that advanced concentrators in the Humanities and Social Sciences still have to take an elementary Gen Ed course in their field...
...Committee recommended that the Nat. Sci. courses "cover fewer substantive areas than the conventional survey course," beginning "from a narrower and deeper concern with a few specific but significant topics," and suggested that courses should be set up along these lines. But Nat. Sci. professors felt that such recommendations applied to new courses rather than to the existing ones...
Commenting on her course, Nat. Sci. 9, Mrs. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Phillips Professor of Astronomy, denied "the slightest need for a change in Nat. Sci. 9," even though she "doubted" that the course meets with the recommendations of the Committee. She asserted that "no matter what the Report says, when I give a course, I give it the way I want...
Leonard K. Nash, associate professor of Chemistry, who gives Nat. Sci. 4, said that "if any sweeping changes are going to be made in the Natural Sciences, I am not going to make them. I hope, of course, to improve my course, but I will not make any changes because of recent developments," he added...
William G. Weston, professor of Cryptogamic Botany, emeritus, said that he and Edward O. Wilson, associate professor of Zoology, who teaches the other half of Nat. Sci. 8, "certainly do not plan any drastic changes." He said that "although some people seem to feel that the General Education courses are waterd-down for non-concentrators, Nat. Sci. 8 is not and will not be as long as I am around...