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...Ph.D. (often in some totally unrelated course to the language they are teaching). As Francis M. Rogers, professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, points out, "Everytime we find a particularly good elementary teacher, he just gets picked off to be a section man in French 20 or some other upper-level course. The result is that the elementary teaching never gets above a certain level...
...reflected in the doubling of the numbers of honors candidates since 1950. And not least important, he has brought a little of Harvard to Northampton by instituting "interdepartmental" courses, the content and approach of which cut across traditional departmental lines. The interdepartmental courses have their analogy here in the upper-level General Education courses...
...little ironies of academic life in the College is the fact that section meetings, taken for granted during Freshman and Sophomore year, suddenly disappear when the student begins taking large, popular upper-level courses as a Junior or Senior...
While sections in elementary Gen Ed courses may often mean a dull hash-over of generalities, their disappearance in upper-level courses leaves the student alone with his notes at the time when he is best equipped to discuss, penetrate, and challenge course material. It is not unusual for a non-science major to have three of four courses with little or no discussion available and then, for contrast, an individual grilling by a tutor. In short, by the time one is a Junior, one's ideas are one's own business...
...object--a heightened academic pace--dovetailed closely with another way for Harvard to help solve the problem which would be created by increased pressure for college admissions. This was the view that saw the Faculty of Arts and Sciences--both the College and the Graduate School--as an upper-level teachers' college, a Ph.D. mill to supply the nation's college instructors...