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...adequate Nat Sci in the biological sciences, Nat Sci 8, filled a gap of many years' standing this year. This brought the elementary offerings up to par with the other two areas, but the deficiency in second group courses shows all the more clearly...
These individuals rarely understand what actually takes place in a Nat Sci course, or else they pick upon the discontinued offerings which students named "cocktail biology." Their conversation betrays an analogy with ninth-grade general science...
...illustrate the precision and experiment which characterize the approach of many sciences. Most Gen Ed courses now try for this effect through demonstration sections and problem sets, notably inadequate tools. If the lab space could be made available laboratory work might improve all the lower-level Nat Sci courses which to not require it. This could happen only if the method were carefully though out. The endless lab writeup of the Physics 1 variety should be avoided, but a good lab would add some of the rigor which many scientists feel the program now lacks...
Barbara Anne Miller '59 won the top James Bryant Conant Prize for her Nat Sci essay entitled "Solem Fixit, Movit Terram." Second prize went to Mary Mitchell Jones '60 for an essay entitled, "The Theory of Verifiability...
...yesterday's CRIMSON (April 23) it was stated that Le Corbeiller will take ove Nat. Sci. 2 in 1957-58; that the course has been renamed The Foundations of Modern Physical Science, and that the mathematics prerequisite has been abandoned...