Word: sci
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...change in Soc Sci 4 "indicates that there is some experimentation, and this is a good thing...The biggest vice of the present system is that it has tended to be too rigid," according to Carl Kaysen, member of the Committee...
Mixed faculty response yesterday greeted the Report of the Committee on Science in General Education. Opposition centered around the report's recommendations for more science instructors on the elementary level and greater intensity in lower level Nat Sci courses...
...Allen Hynek, visiting lecturer on General Education and head of Nat Sci 9, supported the report while responding to Jones' criticism of too many lower level teachers. Hynek fully agreed that the emphasis upon secondary preparation ought to be increased. However, he maintained that "not even as great a university as Harvard should forget that one of the prime obligations of a university is to teach...
...they are known today." Such courses would unquestionably be very beneficial for a student with some touch of scientific curiosity, but it is a bit difficult to see just why they would give this idea of scientific discipline (as a molding force in modern life) any better than Nat. Sci. 10 does...
...this or that scientific program on purely scientific grounds, must at present be answered negatively. It seems likely that there will be a continuing need for the Killian-type scientific advisor at all levels, and such suggestions as the Committee's, urging the use of calculus in Nat. Sci., do not and cannot go very far towards alleviating this situation...