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Late in the summer, the word "Seminar" was added to give the project a degree of concreteness, and three weeks ago a "catalogue" was sent to freshmen listing 22 proposed study groups. Entitled the "Freshman Seminar Program," the groups will include a total of 150 to 175 freshmen, who in...
With the funds assured, discussions about the freshman year took on a new importance and urgency. They did not however, take on a noticeably new clarity. Administrative responsibilities were assigned to the Faculty Committee on Advanced Standing; and the full Faculty, at a meeting last May 19, voted to "authorize...
Small size (for the most part, 5-10 students) is the one feature common to all of the proposed work-shops. This limit stems from a widely-held conviction that "clearly the most effective way of stimulating awareness and concern, honest scholarship and intellectual zest, is to put the student...
But despite the fact that no two workshops are exactly, or even approximately, alike, they can be lumped into two general categories. The first group has as its common elements a desire to stimulate what the Advanced Standing Office has called "pre-professional specialization." The individuals in charge have generally...
An example of this type of work-shop is that of Donald Menzel, professor of Astronomy, who will "supervise a research project on the growth and behavior of sunspots." Members of this technical team of about eight freshmen must have "a real interest in this field and be qualified to...