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During these years Monro taught General Education Ahf. He has been a proponent of extention of tutorials, freshman seminars, and a more flexible Gen Ed program. Since he became Dean in 1958, Monro has placed himself in the position as a spokesman for student ideas in Faculty meetings. "During the last few years," Dean Ford said Wednesday, "Monro's reports to the Faculty on student attitudes has provided an essential interpretation of what is the best and most responsible student opinion...
...finished reading, Robert H. Rimmer himself. Some of you may quibble that a man who has already managed to turn four fictional sex diaries into dull, tortured writing would not be the proper person to teach others how to write them. But tell the truth now, was your own Gen Ed section man such at hot shot? And Rimmer reads like an easy grader
...life dissolve in a curious amalgam. At one time or another this fall, the peripatetic Finley was inspired to comment on pre-med students, suburbs, roller skates, Barbar the Elephant, and Vietnam. He has a peculiarly personal and philosophic view of General Education (he was chairman of the Gen Ed Committee from 1960 to 1965) as the wholesale marketing of truth and insight. But as one student protests, "Take a Finley-Finleyism like 'Tragedy is the brandy to the wine of epic.' Fine. It's beautiful. But what does it mean? Does one take the epic with dinner and tragedy...
Goethals and Rosenthal hope to persuade Edward T. Wilcox, director of the Program of General Education, to offer the course as a middle level Gen Ed course next year...
...details of its own, and now will put it before the full Faculty. If the proposal is passed, it will probably mean a significant increase in the academic workload of many students in the College. Likewise, the two-year debate on General Education has been completed, and a new Gen Ed Office will start looking for new Gen Ed courses to fill a more flexible program. This too, over the years, can expand the course offerings open to undergraduates...