Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Depth, too, may come with time. In the Natural Sciences particularly, the upper-level offerings at present are extraordinarily weak. Perhaps the Gen Ed committee will decide ultimately that the way to attract unusually qualified professors to the Gen Ed program is to offer them unusually qualified students--to institute upper-level Gen Ed courses with stiff prerequisites...
...lectured for two years in English 70, the department's survey of American literature. Heimert has also taught a graduate course on colonial literature and an upper-level Humanities course on 18th century American culture. This spring term, Heimert is on sabbatical...
While Lyndon scored A's in Greene's political-science classes, other grades were less impressive. "He never ranked in the upper tenth of his class because he had too many irons in the fire," recalls his college dean, Dr. Alfred H. Nolle, who pegs Lyndon's overall average at a B. He once got an F - in a physical-education course. He became known as "Bull" Johnson, recalls classmate Gladys Snavely Bowman, because "he was always promoting something and had such drive...
...first few chapters are a capsule history of the House which are badly written and often inaccurate (e.g. "the Senate was known as the 'upper body' possibly because it met in a chamber on the second floor above the House"). The general point of the history is that the House was better off when it had strong leadership...
...asserted that freshmen advisors too often have had limited experience with advanced standing students and are ill-equipped to assist freshmen in mapping out programs of study. Even after the student accepts sophomore standing, he "has no one officially assigned to advise him about the unique problems of taking upper level courses with freshman exam-taking study techniques...