Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...point out that ... the Army and Navy trained men in various fields, and the education of doctors was only a small part of the overall training program. In no instance was such training considered to be a loan...
According to the suggested program the school's enrollment and faculty would be increased and its curriculum would he altered to place more emphasis on the social and psychological problems in teaching religion. The school currently stresses the historical approach to religion...
After the war the Tech administration took a long look west on Massachusetts Avenue, then took a look at itself and started to plan the core of a new humanities program. Like Harvard and its G.E. Committee, M.I.T. was worried about what specialization would do to the thinking processes of twentieth-country...
...core to which the Tech GE program will be tied is a random study of cultures, at six weeks per culture. The culture studies usually involve guest lecturers. Margaret Mead, for example, aided a study of south sea civilization. This sort of work goes on for two years; then the student can specialize for one and a half years after which he spends a last half year in synthesizing what he has absorbed...
Burchard also noted that the introduction of GE in earnest at M.I.T. this year apparently was popular with students of superior abilities. Less zealous or competent students tended to think of the Tech GE program as something that was chewing up their time while they were trying to become engineers...