Word: sci
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professors in the General Education Nat. Sci. courses were unanimous yesterday in their opinion that existing Nat. Sci. courses are quite satisfactory and that no significant changes are being planned for them next year...
...University is a sterile mortuary for the creative artist the Design School offers contrary evidence that successful training is possible in fields not limited to the exercise of the critical interpretative facilities but also in those relying upon artistic creativity. The efforts and results of the GSD and Arch. Sci. Department in the teaching of the visual arts assumes particular importance in a society whose increased awareness and concern for the role of the visual arts is especially notable against the background of nearly complete neglect which characterized its attitude towards these fields in the past...
There are also courses devoted primarily to technical problems, such as Arch. Sci. 253--Reinforced Concrete Design. As a further step the three departments require the students to spend one summer at practical professional experience. Recognizing that one cannot learn flashing and sheathing from a draughting board the Department of Architecture recommends a job in the field. So one recent student found employment as a hod carrier...
Newton emphasizes that the Faculty does not look upon the Arch. Sci. program as only a preparation for the GSD. Like all the departments of the College it is non-professional. (However, it is possible for qualified seniors to combine the last year of college studies and the first year in GSD. Last year only nine of 16 persons qualified took the option.) Instead Newton believes that Arch. Sci. "is as legitimate a field for general education as any other." It serves as an introduction to a profession whose basis is no less than "fulfillment of the social requirements...
...Cambridge, a tutorial slot at Winthrop House, and a temporary end to travels. He spend the year writing his thesis ("with just a short break for a trip to India"), again assisted in Gov 1 and Gov 106, and this spring was named head tutor in Riesman's Soc Sci 136. And now, along with Master Bullitt, tutors named and unnamed, eighty hand-picked sophomores and juniors and many many uninterviewed freshman, he stands on the threshold of Quincy. Let's hope the threshold holds...