Word: optional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plan currently under consideration would set up a compulsory senior tutorial on a cross-departmental basis and would allow non-Honors Seniors the option of writing a long essay and taking a general examination to regain Honors standing. Perkins described the plan as "providing a more respectable cum laude than the one in General Studies...
...tutorial groups would be based as much as possible on House affiliations and would be composed of eight to ten students and two tutors. Students who did not elect the Honors option would take departmental divisional examinations as they have in the past...
...will become the first lower level general education course to exempt certain students from final examinations, administration sources revealed yesterday. Students on the Dean's list or with B or better in the course will have the option of writing a long paper...
...paper is designed to enable good students to learn more than they would from cramming for an examination, Clyde K. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology and head of the course, explained. He emphasized that the paper would definitely be an option--no one would be forced to take...
Students must decide well in advance whether they will accept the option, Kluckhohn remarked. The time tentatively set for this decision is after return from spring vacation, and papers would be due upon the date of the final examination. Every If the plan is approved, Kluckhohn said the mid-year, exams will be given next year, as he feels students should have some experience with examinations...