Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...order to be safely beyond the call of the army, it is necessary that a freshman rank in the upper half of his class, a sophomore in the upper two-thirds, junior in the top three-fourths, and a senior in the top quarter of the class...
Much of the forces' work is of quieter nature. Simply patrolling the Harvard area--from the business school parking lot, to the law and graduate schools (upper right, lower left and right)--for 24 hours each day takes much of the manpower. The police do not cover Radcliffe, patrolled by separate night watchmen, except for occasional incidents, such as that last Yale weekend, when students conducted an impromptu parade to the Annex...
...major recommendation of the Council is to implement an original aim of General Education by requiring an upper-level Natural Sciences course on the history and philosophy of science for all science and pre-med concentrators, who are now exempt from elementary General Education courses. A quotation from scripture shows the error in the Council's plan: General Education in a Free Society urged that a broad view of science should be ". . . an integral part of the education in his specialty, pervading all his courses. In part it might also take the form of special courses in the science departments...
Although the lecturers approved the introduction of more upper level Nat. Sci. courses, they disagreed on the need for making them required. "I'm not convinced that it wouldn't be better for some science students to take Humanities and Social Sciences courses rather than further science courses," said I. Bernard Cohen, associate professor of the History of Science and Nat. Sci. 3 lecturer...
Kemble felt that an upper level Nat. Sci. course ought to be required, but emphasized the difficulty of creating a course that would appeal to advanced students in all areas of science. William H. Drury, assistant professor of Biology and Nat. Sci. 6 lecturer, agreed saying, "The Natural Sciences don't cut across similar areas as often as the Humanities and the Social Sciences...