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...George Wald, professor of Biology and head of the course, disclosed yesterday that only a fraction of a point separated the mean averages posted by the two groups at mid-term, with the biology concentrators and pre-med students doing slightly better...
Noting that he regarded the five points as an "exceedingly small difference" to begin with, Wald said that performances in the spring have obliterated any such reference "with even a suggestion that general education is leading the field...
...general education group. Of the top sixteen grades on the exam, nine were made by general education students, five by science concentrators, and two by undecided students. This is despite the fact that there is only a very slight different between the sizes of the two groups. Wald said he began the course with the hypothesis that the best introduction to biology for general education students should also be the best introduces for the prospective concentrator." I see that this has now been amply indicated," he said, "so that what was an hypothesis is now pretty much a conviction...
Keith Porter, the noted electron microscopist from the Rockefeller Institute, will join the University Faculty next fall as professor of Biology, and give a course called "The Cell," which will use the resources of the natural sciences to penetrate to the molecular level, according to Wald...
...further revision, the offering of sophomore seminars next year by interested members of the Biology Department, "is under serious consideration," reported Wald...