Word: senior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faculty has submitted a list of 75 students, nominated by the Senior Tutors and Department heads, to serve on an advisory group on educational policy. This committee, under the auspices of the Student Council, will consist of undergraduates with different career plans, fields of concentration, and group rankings...
Finally, the Commissioners, seniors acting as Conference leaders, coordinate all the material, and help the chairman--a senior of "high standing"--to organize a final report, which is duly filed in Firestone Library...
...School requires its seniors to spend one term either as a Conference leader, or as a member of a senior seminar. These seminars add a further element of unity to the program. This fall, for example, an editor of the Reporter Magazine has discussed from a journalist's point of view, the "Substructures of Government"--such as the Press and Congressional Committees. An-other seminar concerns Problems of Modern Germany...
Concentration in the School concludes with a senior thesis (At Princeton, no sharp distinction is made between honors students and those who shuffle along in a non-honors program: everyone writes a senior thesis. There is also a three-part senior comprehensive examination,--an essay on a very broad question, a second essay on a set of field problems, and a rather specific question which is not, however, "course-oriented...
...School reply that its program not only belongs in a liberal arts college, but is, in fact, one of the most valuable fields of concentration at Princeton. If the School acted merely to coordinate courses for its "members," it might be criticized as disunified. But the Conference and the senior seminar draw together (the various disciplines), and students presumably gain at least preliminary acquaintance with the tools of the social sciences. And, significantly, they "learn by doing," by applying these several disciplines to important public problems...