Word: terme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...term that dominates talk of Harvard education, was probably coined by some freshman or sophomore ten years ago. He used the phrase to name an experimental program that offered eight courses to 459 students that year...
...great books" during his presidency there. "You can't examine a text," he complains, "if simply getting through the number of pages exhausts you." Owen shares this concern, and one instructor recently suggested that a Gen Ed course might profitably take up only one or two books a term, delving into them for every possible meaning...
...permanent status with 1949-50. Owen says that the committee would welcome such a review, but it seems that if such a study is to make sense, both the teaching of science and the place of languages should be carefully examined first. Excepting the unlikely eventualities of curricular or term-arrangement reform, these are the most pressing problemsfor Harvard education today...
These students take only seminars, two a term. Five or six students meet weekly with an instructor, writing papers every other week. Ordinarily one seminar is in the student's own field and the others related. A typical honors program might include four political science seminars, two in history, and two in economics...
...include individual scholars of renown, they are not centers of research. The teaching and counseling duties constitute a severe handicap to research. At Swarthmore the teacher performs in both seminar and courses, and this can result in a schedule requiring the equivalent of five half courses and two one-term seminars in a year, or an average of up to thirteen teaching hours per week. With time allowed for preparation, this figure may almost preclude a research faculty...