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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...
...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...
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...