Word: worked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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 in close association with a man whose work is an affirmation of these qualities." "Close association" is the key phrase here; it is this circumstance which will, hopefully, "connect freshmen excitement with Faculty excitement." Beyond this one shared starting-point, the various roads to Mecca head off in extremely different...
...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 tended to view their workshops as a kind of tutorial for freshmen. Their subject-matter will be closely related to course work, or will entail independent study for their students within the field of a particular course; the students, for the most part, will be freshmen who can show an unusual enthusiasm (the words "lively interest" are stressed time and again) and special aptitude in the field...
...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 participate effectively as a member of a research team--either as an astronomer or as a physicist, mathematician, or writer." As an added requirement members of the workshop are expected to enroll in Astronomy 1, as well as to audit courses in related fields...
...stresses that his group wants the average freshman, too. This difference has led to a further difference in recruiting methods. Riesman's staff has not sought out particular freshmen, but has sent a letter to all the members of '63, simply "inviting" their participation. Meanwhile, on behalf of all work-shops but Riesman's, the Office of Advanced Standing sent additional solicitations to about 175 students whose school record seems to indicate special competence in their particular field...
...outlined one likely project, to which people of all interests could make distinctive contributions. This is a discussion of "field theory," of the relationship (or "transaction") between the student and the material he studies. In the course of such a discussion, the physicist could relate the special problems of work in his own field--and likewise the historian, the anthropologist the archaeologist, and so forth...