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...General Education Committee has voted unanimously to accept for lower level General Education credit the biology course proposed by George Wald, professor of Biology. The decision marks the first time an introductory departmental course has been accepted for lower level credit...
...Wald's course, which exists only in outline as yet, was proposed to fill the gap left by leaves of absence taken by four professors now teaching introductory and General Education courses in biology. It follows a precedent set by the Geology Department, which last year abandoned its introductory and accepted Natural Sciences 10 for concentration...
Members of the Committee have been uniformly enthusiastic. One reason cited is that Wald, who was one of the authors of General Education in a Free Society, is one of the most respected men connected with Gen Ed, and has long been sought as a teacher for a lower level course...
Although endorsed as a course for concentration, one member of the Committee called Wald's proposal, "one of the few real General Education courses in the Natural Sciences...
...Hollywood Gossipist Sheilah Graham, who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's girl friend during the last sad years of his life as a Hollywood hack. The book pretended, with some authority, to be the hard, straight stuff-novelist on the rocks. But Producer Jerry (The Best of Everything) Wald decided that the stuff was too strong for the customers he was after, and he attempted to water the old Fitzgerald down and sweeten it up. The result is one of those long, pale, fruity concoctions that the ladies are supposed to like. In this case, the taste is more than...