Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class entering in 1951 simply would not have been admitted in 1956." But college faculties, suggests Professor Wise, "have neither fully sensed this radical change nor taken adequate steps to provide challenge and stimulation for these new students." An alarming statistic: only about half of the students in the upper 20% of ability stays on to graduate...
...Committee on the Houses should not act on yesterday's words, but should go on a second thought. And that second thought should be, that to force all upper-classmen into House rooms will only make a certain segment of the student body unhappy and make the rest of it uncomfortable. By lucky necessity, students got their rightful way with the University this year, and it is foolish, when the necessity is gone, for the attendant privileges and advantages to go with it. There is no reason that the University should not continue and make permanent its present policy...
...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...
...through written or oral question-and-answer sessions held at the lecturer's discretion. Professor Tillich's courses are famous for these written student questions, answered from the lecture platform at the start of each class hour. In any event, means should be devised to inject student ideas into upper level courses...