Word: subjects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College, a large proportion of faculty time "will be invested in showing groups of 10 to 15 freshmen what it is like to work as a scholar by directing them in the exploration of a limited subject matter." The faculty will consider its job not to fill intellectual filing cabinets, but to develop in its students "a capacity to continue their education throughout their lives...
...addition to a "thoroughly alive" course offering, New College will embody another curricular innovation: a month-long midwinter term, when the whole college will join with visiting teachers to study two courses "providing a common intellectual experience." One of these conference-courses will deal with a subject "of central importance in Western culture," the other with a non-Western topic, the subjects changing each year over a four year span. Unfortunately, such a midwinter term could easily become an aimless interlude, devoid of excitment. But, if carefully planned, it could also turn into one of the great attractions...
Broad knowledge will not be pre-digested for New College students; it will come as a natural consequence of exploration, of "getting around" in their subjects. Methods are best introduced, not in the abstract, but in action. The fall freshman seminar will teach methodology by exploring limited subjects, each teacher deciding on a subject and its limits with a view to best showing a group of about thirteen students how he works, and how they can work, in using his discipline...
...Subject to aproval by the Corporation and Board of the Overseers, William J. Brooks will become head coach of swimming next year, replacing Harold S. Ulen, who is retiring after this season, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
...series of monographs discussing topics in physics not covered in formal classroom work will be published this fall. Phillippe E. LeCorbeiller, professor of Applied Physics, described the purpose of these monographs as an attempt to "have the most competent people write on a scientific subject in a way that could interest educated people who do not have a formal background in science" in addition to interested students in the course...