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...most discouraging developments of the fall has been the faculty's apparent loss of enthusiasm for independent study in upperclass education. Last year at this time Faculty members shouted the virtues of a courseless senior year, but now their emphasis seems to be on more and more requirements. The aim of such plans as qualifying examinations, required tutorial as a fourth course, is not requirements for their own sake, of course, but greater difficulty and prestige for honors work. One cannot quarrel with this goal, but the means by which some would attain it are alarming...
Abolition of non-Honors junior tutorial is being considered among faculty members as part of an overall discussion of upperclass curriculum reform...
Finally, and perhaps most important, the requirement that all students must spend their three upperclass years in a House should be considered. There are some people to whom the life in a House means very little. It is ridiculous to force such a system on an undergraduate, especially while there are other students who want to live in a House but, because of crowded conditions, are unable to do so and must commute. It is likely that these students who wish to live outside the House would constitute a rather small percent of each class, and their leaving would...
...This is dodging the issue," Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, asserted forcefully. "Harvard College either runs as a college with Houses or it doesn't," he said, voicing his opposition to allowing upperclass students to move out to other lodgings...
...incoming freshman and the Harvard prospect in secondary school. At present, unless the student has three advanced placement courses, his credits do him little good. He can, supposedly, take courses not regularly open to freshmen, but with a glib tongue he can talk his way into many upperclass courses anyway. Advanced placement also makes later course reduction easier, according to the Advanced Standing Office; however, the qualified and responsible student can often get course reduction without previous advanced placement...