Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, winners of the honorary degrees will remain top secret until the last moment. At last year's program Secretary of State George C. Marshall and now Army Chief of Staff Omar M. Bradley received honorary Doctors of Laws, while J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, who helped develop the atomic bomb, won Doctor of Science designation...
...your books be useful instead of dusty!" is the motto of the campaign, according to the Committee, composed largely of graduate students enrolled in the Regional Studies Program...
Within the structure of conference groups and assigned papers the place of tutorial must be re-evaluated. The first step would be to end the twin luxuries of private tutoring and tutoring for honors candidates only, by setting up a new program of group tutorial--meetings of three or four men with their tutor. Group tutorial surely increases the stimulating effect of a tutorial meeting, as long as the number of men is kept severely down. The only real loss to the honors candidate would be thesis assistance, and that could certainly be given outside of the group sessions...
...difficulty of tutorial has always been lack of a specific function in each student's case. What would be emphasized in the utopian program as tutorial's own goal is coordination of all the student's scattered courses and reading into a pattern leading somewhere in his own academic field. To help the undergraduate think about where he is heading intellectually, to fit the courses he takes in his field of concentration into a larger idea of the field--these objects only tutorial can achieve...
Despite the idealist label attached to this program, none of the elements in it is revolutionary or unknown at Harvard. General Education courses have shown the way toward substitution of papers for examinations. Conference groups are in use here and in large numbers of other United States colleges. Group tutorial has been tried successfully in the Social Relations Department and others...