Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...German courses. A professor at Columbia until a year ago, Stein headed their exceptionally successful modern language program, so well that Levin deems him "the best man in the country for teaching beginning German." He teaches two sections, one in German B and one in German C, and an upper-level course; he also heads a group of five instructors and fifteen part-time assistants ("all in training to become language teachers") concerned with lower-level German instruction. Stein came to Harvard convinced of the value of the direct method of instruction, and in the last year he has made...
...upper level requirement too has changed radically. Instead of the distribution requirement which is the present upper level program, the Redbook suggested that only a very limited group of courses approved by the Committee should be fulfill the upper level requirement. And there was no suggestion that the intention was simply to promote distribution...
...place of the long-standing assumption that a student who has just arrived from school is not prepared to choose his field of concentration, the Seminar program seems to support the hypothesis that a student is fully capable of doing upper level work and entering a field, not merely during the Freshman year, but before it begins. (The members of Seminar groups were generally selected during the summer.) Many Seminar members are taking three courses in one field, and the science seminars are so specialized that the Committee classifies them as "not normally open to Freshmen...
...years ago such action would have been strongly resented, as was President Pusey's appointing Rev. George A. Buttrick to teach an upper level Gen Ed course without consulting the Committee. The most conspicuous sentiment this fall was one of slight confusion...
Island Newsday-before vanishing from public view into an apartment on Manhattan's upper East Side. This week, having dangled an irresistible bait, the Washington Post and Times Herald announced that it had lured Cartoonist Duffy, 60, out of hiding...