Word: whitla
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tests will challenge students' abilities for learning new material, developing arguments and perceiving verbal nuances, Dean K. Whitla, director of the office, said yesterday...
...Whitla said he hoped the experiment would eventually lead to "better information with which the Faculty can make decisions" about possible curriculum changes and other issues...
...Harvard has long lived merely on the reputations of its graduates," Whitla said. "We would like to look at the college experience in a different light...
...these findings come from answers to a 19-page questionnaire that Whitla and Pinck circulated in the Houses in 1973, gathered and compiled shortly thereafter, and have been writing up ever since...
There will probably not be any concrete changes coming as a result of the report; Whitla says he means it to serve as a "debating piece," not a basis for legislation. Unlike most Harvard reports, it makes no recommendations except that students and faculty should get together more, which in terms of controversiality is like saying people should write their parents more often...