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To the Editors of the CRIMSON:
There is no necessity for a strict four course sophomore program. What is called for is a sophomore program of credit tutorial or possibly a credit sophomore seminar. Such plans would be feasible, of course, only to the extent of the availability of faculty time, but if a professor has...
The recent CRIMSON article on the House Seminars indicates the extent to which that program has succeeded, but demonstrates that the House Seminars cannot alone fill the need for this type of activity. This need is most striking on the sophomore level.
In some of the Freshman Seminars, students are given a one course reduction. The time thus freed can be devoted to seminar section meetings and to outside reading which is often done under the guidance of the seminar section leader.
Profiting from this program, the enthusiastic freshman may look forward to independent study as an Honors junior or senior (in a '98" or "99" course), but is puzzled by the lack of any such opportunity in the sophomore year. The House Seminars, by their very nature, are not comparable to...