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This would overturn the ruling, voted by the Faculty in 1927, which requires courses regularly open to freshmen to continue to meet during the last two weeks before examinations. It would not necessarily affect those upper-level science courses which do not observe the reading period...
...report also suggested a further examination of the freshman year, "with regard to extending the Seminars and creating a Freshman House system." It asked the Committee on General Education to consider criteria by which students might substitute upper-level distribution for lower-level Gen Ed requirements...
Returning to the University after a year away, Monroe Engel '42 will give an upper-level course in the writing of fiction and may teach a course in the modern novel as well...
...German courses. A professor at Columbia until a year ago, Stein headed their exceptionally successful modern language program, so well that Levin deems him "the best man in the country for teaching beginning German." He teaches two sections, one in German B and one in German C, and an upper-level course; he also heads a group of five instructors and fifteen part-time assistants ("all in training to become language teachers") concerned with lower-level German instruction. Stein came to Harvard convinced of the value of the direct method of instruction, and in the last year he has made...
...read more scholarly works in his field than his department demands. If he is majoring in government, he might prefer a tutorial in which he could read and discuss "Great Books" in economics, history, sociology, or anthropology to a strictly governmental tutorial. Or, if he were taking an upper-level English course which did not offer sections, he might like to attend an English literature tutorial for a semester...