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Yale's faculty wants qualified students to earn B.A.s along with their M.A.s, but Yale intends to ''keep required courses and see to it that a student is well educated before placing him in independent work." Connecticut's Wesleyan has plunged ahead with independent study and tutorials, is reorganizing itself as a federation of colleges grouped around major fields of study. "Unless liberal arts colleges move into some form of advanced learning that at the same time strengthens their undergraduate work," warned Wesleyan recently, "they may well be doomed to become finishing schools, or at best...
Today, accordingto Sizer's report, the M.A.T. degree is "well established in American academia." Similar ventures have been established by Yale, Chicago Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Oberlin, and Wesleyan...
Syracuse, one of the nation's best teams, beat Army in a tight battle for first place. Mankato State of Minnesota was third and Lehigh, which is ranked number four in the national standings, finished a surprisingly low fourth. Franklin and Marshall took fifth place, and Wesleyan sixth...
...Wesleyan College has rejoined the NDEA student loan program, although Wesleyan president Victor L. Butterfield feels the revised law still has some objectionable provisions. Amherst, Brown, Colby, Harvard, Oberlin, Princeton, and Yale have also rejoined the program since the disclaimer affidavit was removed...
Sherburn came to the University in 1939, after having taught at Columbia for several years. He received his A.B. from Wesleyan, and his Ph.D. from Chicago in 1915. Before begining his teaching career, Sherburn served in France as an officer in World...