Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Students used to satisfy fully half of their concentration requirements with period surveys. Bate said, however, that the Department would rather not force this situation on undergraduates. He emphasized that "it only wishes that the choice of special topic courses be supplemental rather than a substitute" to the period surveys...
...House seminars, maintained that "there just is not enough demand for them." He stated that people just couldn't seem to find time for the seminars. In addition, those that do start out in a seminar often leave when they find that some reading is required to discuss the topic intelligently. Labaree also claimed that since the Faculty vote instituting non-Honors tutorial last spring seminars are no longer relevant to their original purpose...
...CRIMSON is run on the principle of an oligarchy. The Daily Princetonian, on the other hand, is a sort of comradely dictatorship. Consider, for example, the matter of editorial policy. At 14 Plympton St. a topic which seems likely to arouse controversy inside the paper, such as whether or not the University should accept NDEA loans, or build bomb shelters, is discussed in a board meeting, where heated argument lasting as long as an hour often precedes the selection of a policy, by majority vote...
...Overseers' Committee to visit Harvard College will be here Dec. 11 and 12, under the chairmanship of Albert L. Nickerson '32, who selected General Education as the topic last spring. They will talk with Finley, Paul H. Buck, who was Dean of the Faculty when the program was instituted, and with professors giving some of the big courses...
...third topic Finley predicted the Overseers' would investigate is a change in the way the Natural Sciences courses are approaching their material. Originally, he said, these courses examined the development of a science historically. But since the Bruner Report, the trend has been to take up a science in the analytic manner of a standard introductory course...