Resolution: That the lectures complement, explain, and discuss the assigned reading rather than duplicate it or stray away from it, as is now true.
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I. Introduction: In all chemistry courses it has been found that a student, working carefully, is unable to accomplish the required amount of laboratory work in the allotted time. The following figures testify to the wide gap that exists: Therefore we recommend: Resolution: That the catalogue of courses state the minimum requirement of hours per week of laboratory work and the average number of hours required to complete the assignments working with reasonable care. II. Introduction: In Chemistry A the professor and the section men seem to have lost all connection with each other. The result has been that the laboratory experiments are either far behind the lectures, or far ahead of them. We recommend: Resolution: That the laboratory work in Chemistry A be better correlated with the lectures, not only when the laboratory manual is made up, but also at regular intervals throughout the year. III. Introduction: The laboratory tests in Chemistry B are being given the week before the experiments are made. The results are unfortunate. We recommend: Resolution: That the laboratory tests in Chemistry B be changed to the week after the experiments are made, rather than the week before. IV. Introduction In Chemistry B a penalty for overtime work in the laboratory is enforced. It is clearly unfair to the man who has a real interest in his work, and wishes to do it carefully. Resolution: That the penalty for overtime laboratory work in Chemistry B be abolished. V. Introduction: Physics C in the last years has become a mere repetition of Physics B, with a slightly more advanced viewpoint. It is also dangerously akin to Physics D. We feel a need for an advanced survey course, which goes into considerable detail into the various fields of physics, and is designed for the student who has had at least an adequate year of physics. It is our hope that a course of this nature will give a man who has decided to concentrate in physics some idea of what section of the field he might especially study. By an advanced course we mean one which passes rapidly over the fundamentals, and stops to prove formulae which are at present assumed, etc. Resolution: That Physics B and D be left unchanged, but that Physics C be made more advanced for students who have had at least an adequate year of physics, and who intend to concentrate in this subject. VI Introduction: In Mathematics A, the student has found himself so deeply involved in the mechanical details of the course that he loses the more general aspects of mathematical thought. In the hope of making Math. A more instructive as well as wider in view point, we recommend: Read more in News
