Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year 1932-33, the most pressing problem of the House Plan had become that of assigning students to Houses. A Central Committee, headed by Dean Hanford, had been set-up to secure an equal intermingling of all seven units, but the Student Council in its first survey of the plan in 1933 reported that negotiations between freshmen and House representatives had proved unsatisfactory...
...fully, it was perhaps inevitable that compulsory House membership would eventually be instituted. In 1941, President Conant summoned the graduate presidents of the final clubs and told them that within a year House membership would be a requirement for all undergraduates. Justification for the move had been a College survey that showed a shocking difference in grades between the 50-odd men still living piled on top of each other in the remaining "rat houses" along Mt. Auburn and students in the Houses...
...concentrator in an outside field who hankers for a passing acquaintance with English literature is in a worse state. Lacking the necessary time, inclination or experience to plow into a course stressing criticism, or concentrating on a few selected authors, this sort of student needs an elementary survey to whet his appetite for the subject...
...present English 10, the department's basic survey course, does not really answer either need. While a vast improvement over the old English 1, which raced through English literature, confusing students with a welter of minor names and works, English 10 has ridden the pendulum too far in the swing of reaction. It is mostly a Great Authors course...
...make English 10 what is needed. Omitting such authors as Byron, Shelly, Browning, Forester and Woolf, it does not pretend to be comprehensive. At the same time not enough is read of any single author to give the student a complete view of him. Nor is it a survey course's function to do so. Instead, it should touch on more major authors, reading less of each to make up for the increase in number. This would help broaden the student's grasp of English literature...