Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested course, similar to one at Dartmouth, would have been a full-year upper class General Education survey on current religious, political, and social problems. Reading assignments would have been taken from recent periodicals...
...reasons for their coolness are of course relevant, but like a dog chasing its tail, this merely returns us to the faults in G.E.'s current operations. Why should the Faculty mangle G.E. because students confuse it with survey courses? Why not instead concentrate on drawing the line between the two types of instruction more carefully...
...successor, Professor George P. Bond was an extensive series of zone observations, elaborate drawings of the planet Saturn, and work on the comet of 1858, and on the nebula in Orion. He and his son also worked to determine terrestrial longitudes for the United States Coast Survey. Cambridge is still recognized as the "Birthplace of American Longitudes...
Edward C. Pickering, professor of Astronomy, was the central figure after 1876. He entered with a new attack on astronomy, applying his background as a physicist to the construction of equipment capable of measuring the light of the various stars to determine their magnitudes. He began the photographic survey of the skies, and his work was so extensive that much of it has been used to solve fundamental problems of today...
...establish that General Education has serious trouble fulfilling its aims--so serious in fact that many undergraduates do not even understand what those aims are. Moreover they indicate that the fault lies in the program's administration; instructors seem to have permitted the line between General Education and the survey course type of learning to become blurred. The Report's statistics and reasoning are quite enough to show that the present G.E. program is not operating satisfactorily...