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...trend to graduate study reflects both change in the entering classes and the College's concern with personal contact between students and Faculty. Dean K. Whitla recently did a series of interviews showing that success in meeting the Faculty as individuals is often critical in undergraduate's evaluation of their careers. Many supporters of the Freshman Seminar program argued along similar lines...
...test could be ready for several years. Trial tests must be given, analyses made, and the actual test created before a finalized version is ready for use, according to Dean K. Whitla, Director of the Office of Tests...
...College Board charges 50 cents apiece for rental of tests. Another solution, according to Dean K. Whitla, Director of the Office of Tests, would be for the instructors in the various language departments to compose new tests...
Beneath all that Whitla talks about is the assumption that education is not only (and perhaps not mainly) academic. He believes it is also the imparting of a set of ideas and values which serve the student for life. It is clear that he thinks Harvard is less aware of the human aspects of being educated than it could be. And, indirectly, one could tie in much of "Encounters with Learning" with a host of current Harvard issues: expansion in a college where students feel anonymous, the need for a good non-Honors tutorial program, and, above all, the need...
...Whitla's survey is an empirical support for a truism: that personal contact with the faculty means better-educated graduates--even by a present standard of "liberal education." Being a truism, it is apt to be ignored, and being true, it should...