Word: wald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question arose from a statement by George Wald, professor of Biology and head of Natural Sciences 5, who contends that the "interplay between General Education students and concentrators adds greatly" to his course. Natural Sciences 5 serves as both a general education course and the basic course in the Biology Department...
John H. Finley Jr. '25, chairman of the Faculty Committee on General Education, denied that it is normally beneficial to combine General Education and departmental courses. Like other Faculty members, Finley felt that Wald's integration of concentrators and General Education students is exceptional...
...Bully for George Wald," said Gerald Holton, professor of Physics, but pointed out that there are too many difficulties to attempt combining Physics 1 with Natural Sciences 2. Holton, who heads Physics 1, said it was "physically inconceivable" to take any such action...
...general education group. Of the top sixteen grades on the exam, nine were made by general education students, five by science concentrators, and two by undecided students. This is despite the fact that there is only a very slight different between the sizes of the two groups. Wald said he began the course with the hypothesis that the best introduction to biology for general education students should also be the best introduces for the prospective concentrator." I see that this has now been amply indicated," he said, "so that what was an hypothesis is now pretty much a conviction...
...interplay between the two groups, Wald pointed out, is adding greatly to the course. He noted that the presence of the general education students provides a "scope and breadth of treatment" while the presence of biology and pre-med students "lends a certain stiffening" to the course...