Word: willful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Undoubtedly, with the number of undergraduates at the College, the lecture and course system will remain the basis of the curriculum. Lectures have some great advantages; the principal one is that they present the "great men" of the faculty to a large number of undergraduates. A diet of lectures alone...
This year certainly, perhaps the next five years, will be a time of testing for the program. Revisions may have to be made, for some of the present seminars may never escape beyond a desultory pursuit of some dilettantish goal, whereas others may be too specialized (for example those on...
Freshmen will find this conflict between surveying and specializing omnipresent throughout the University. The idea of general education, of grounding the student in certain fundamental problems of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences is basically a healthy one; and the seminar program should attempt to remedy the deficiences in...
This is not to say that each seminar should be a little gen. ed. course, but it does mean that initial over-specialization may lead freshmen to ignore the momentous questions latent in any study. A seminar in history, for example, offers a wonderful opportunity to work by case study...
Without experience it is impossible to know how centralized or how autonomous the program should be, how specialized or how general the individual workshops. Experiment is a necessity in this sort of venture. What has been established so far is a healthy beginning and should be continued and expanded, so...