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Dean Monro's proposal to put non-Honors tutorial under supervision of the General Education Committee is at once a marriage of convenience and a major step in educational policy. The utility of placing the new program under an existing interdepartmental administrative committee was clear to the Masters, but the...
The long-standing obstacle to an imaginative non-departmental tutorial program has been the identification of Honors with intelligence. Since Honors, however, continues to have its traditional implication of intensive concentration, intelligence becomes synonymous with heavy concentration. In fact, students in the Social Sciences are only recommended for Honors in...
In a university college it is virtually impossible to remove this emphasis on specialization in the departmental concentration programs, principally because of the importance of graduate students in undergraduate teaching. Assigning non-Honors tutorial to the General Education Committee is the first step in making someone responsible for non-departmental...
They have brought together Lichtenberg's observations and witticisms written over a period covering roughly 35 years of his life, from 1764 to 1799. During most of this period, Lichtenberg resided at Gottingen University, as a professor of mathematics and astronomy. Only Kant stayed at home longer than Lichtenberg; both...
As is apparent from these quotations from The Lichtenberg Reader, Lichtenberg was a master of the aphorism. Although he produced nothing else in the realm of great literature, his amazing skill at combining a sharp wit with deep insights was enough to endear him to his great contemporaries, Goethe and...