Word: function
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Masters have clearly felt this challenge, for this is the moment they have chosen to murmur about cutting back parietal hours, and the Administration has offered a measure of support for a student union-whose principal function would be to offer undergraduates a place to entertain girls and hence give the Administration an excuse for cutting the hours when girls may be in the Houses. The significance of these rumblings is not that Harvard will actually enact more conservative rules, but that the response of the Masters to Radcliffe's growing liberalism and self-confidence will be reactionary rather than...
...would let them opt out of concentration. But this is only part of the explanation for the rule against living out-the other part is that the Houses are a monolithic conception of education, and the Masters have sufficient faith in that conception to feel that competition has no function except to diminish students' motivation. They believe, in addition, that most who want to escape the Houses really wish only to escape parietal rules, and their emotions about those rules are sufficiently confused so that their impulse is to prevent rather than to reexamine the system supporting those rules...
Lois M. Reiser '64, RGA president, supported the proposed change, calling it "an important step in defining the function of Houses in the community...
...second, the grounds of scientific generalizations and theories, extending first-hand experience with theoretical calculations from introductory laboratories; third, the social context of science, starting from knowledge of at least one scientist in one real laboratory in one real department. It is these courses that would perform the "orienting" function of scientific education with Holton emphasizes. In order to make the introductory courses now called Nat Scis available through the departments, and in order to leave the field of Gen Ed open to topical courses which treat these three issues, the departmental courses currently disguised as Nat Sci should shed...
...Doty Committee might consider requiring, in addition to one introductory science course, mathematical proficiency equivalent to that provided by, say, Math. 1. The Redbook and Holton emphasized how useful, and often how essential, mathematics is for a direct approach to scientific problems; scientific literacy without the concepts of function, rate of change, and limit, and what these mean in operation, is subtile indeed...