Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Masters are "interested" in instituting a system of non-Honors Senior tutorial on an intra-House basis, Dean Bundy indicated yesterday. The CEP report, approved by the Faculty May 6, urged that "group tutorial or small discussion sections" be offered to non-Honors Seniors in the Houses...
...system of non-Honors Senior tutorial "requires a good deal of thought and elaborate planning," John J. Conway, Master of Leverett House, commented. The new program, he said, represents a significant change in University policy, and needs "a summer's thought to work out." The problem of housing space for additional tutors might be alleviated, he added, by drop-outs during the summer...
...give mature consideration to contemporary problems without background in history apart from American History." Foreign-language teaching starts out well, ends badly: "The elective Spanish courses offered to the more able students beginning at the seventh-grade level seem to be well presented as a living language. The senior high school courses seem to be presented more mechanically with greater emphasis on meeting college-entrance requirements...
Taking a graduate course often constitutes a "dry run" for the junior or senior who is considering graduate school. He is not yet subject to the pressures or professional standards of competition. The recent CEP report recognized the honors candidate should receive the personal attention possible through small tutorial groups and independent, directed study, such as provided by the conference course...
...papers the night before for an easy B; the other, the dry-as-dust graduate whose vision is narrowing to the confines of his special field. CEP changes in tutorial and course requirements allow the undergraduate more flexibility. Revisions in the Ph.D. program are directing the time of senior faculty members to graduate tutorial work. For the high-ranking student who feels his middle-group courses expendable, and personal attention more desirable, a wide range of graduate courses can provide him with a training in scholarship.PAUL H. BUCK...