Word: sections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although I myself believed the journalism expos was just as good a writing course as any other section, one of the committee members felt the course was geared to 'hip' writing rather than developing clear, felicitous prose," he said. "Another member felt the course had no place in the curriculum of a University where courses in applied music and drama were forbidden," he said...
...edited and reworked repeatedly. The class teacher practiced a unique style analysis that forced students to examine classical subjective literature, calculating the number of times each part of speech was used, making students aware of undesirable loose jargon and grandiose tendencies in much specialized work. Style analysis, former head section man for the option, Martin Robbins, said, forced the students to review their grammar and brought them closer to absorbing the gestures of each writer's style...
...writing course has much to do with the quality of student work and how much they learn. Consistent one-to-one discussion is what is most important," he said. "Writing is a matter of creation as well as revision, so I doubt that what happens in the journalism section is any different from what happens in the natural science course." Byker was preceptor of the natural science option last year...
...exactly certain at this time why the course was dropped, but several of the former teachers of the journalism section surmise that at the root of the problem is the misleading title of the course and the attitude towards it which Meislin expressed. Some of the committee members unfamiliarity with the course content and confusion about its title--journalism--bears out this assumption. Harvard has always frowned upon offering courses in applied arts, and Robbins says he feels that this attitude may be at the root of the decision to eliminate what appears to some to be a training ground...
...property values and some rental rates. "They're really coming in here--students, faculty members, and just people who want to live in Cambridge but can't afford more expensive homes elsewhere," says Smith, who claims his own home might have cost him three times as much in another section of Cambridge...