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Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Fall 1977 Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Alumni News Archives Fall 1977 Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Fall 1977 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Fall 1977" (1977). Alumni News. 200. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews/200 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni News by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. The ggrnecticut Alu~ Mag::xzine ,.. Don • ., 1'1"" "f II,.. CJ'lI"Y" "I' NfEW!L.ONT>ON .. ." . " ~" • ,,' \ ., i\. I .\ \ •I " ',"<,- ~_ • Alb ; iiiiihh1WJihi •• ""h"'!h, .... EDITORIAL BOARD: AJlen T. Carroll'73 EdilOr(R.F.D. 3, Colches- President / Sally Lane Braman '54 Secretary / Platt Townend Arnold ter, Ct. 06415), Marion vilbert Clark '24 Class NOles Editor, Elizabeth '64 Treasurer . '56 Damerel Gongaware '26 Assistant Editor, Cassandra Goss Sitnonds '55, Directors-at-Large. Michael J. Farrar '73, Anne Godsey Sun nett , Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 ex officio Terry Munger '50, Gwendolyn Rendall Cross '62 / Alumni Trusl~e~ Official publication of the Connecticut College Alumni Association. All Virginia Golden Kent '35 Jane Smith Moody '49, Joan Jacobson Krome. publication rights reserved. Contents reprinted only by permission of the '46 / Chairman of A iumni Giving: Susan Lee '70 / Chairman of NOInI- editor. Published by the Connecticut College Alumni Association at Sykes noting ~ommittee: Joann Walton Leavenworth '56/ Chairman of Fm.a;~: Alumni Center, Connecticut College, New London, Conn. four times a Comrninee, Sally Lane Braman '54 / Chairman of Clubs camnnuee. year in Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall. Second-class postage paid at New Weinberg Mindlin '53 / Chairman of Classes Comminee: Anne God;err London, Ct. 06320. Application to mail at additional entry Post Office Stinnett '56 / Chairman of Programs Committee: Gwendolyn Ren a pending. Send form 3579 to Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut College, Cross '62 / Executive Director: Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 I Young New London, Ct. 06320. AAC member Alumni Represenrative: Ken Crerar'77 f h EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: Britta Communications to any of the above may be addressed in care 0 t e Schein McNemar '67 President / Mariana Parcells Wagoner '44 Vice- Alumni Office, Connecticut College, New London, Ct. 06320 « - The Connecticut College AlumnI Magazine VOLUME 55 NUMBER 1 FALL 1977 The College Taward Greater Breadth and Integration 2 Minor Myers The City on the Thames Revisited 4 The Domestic Architecture of New London 6 Edgar Mayhew It Sure Beats Retirement 10 Ruby Turner Morris Hot Spots 13 A guide 10 New London's Offbeat Attractions The Bank Street Urban Renewal Project 17 Richard Arms In the Beginning 19 Gertrude Noyes Eugene O'Neill: New London's Misbegotten Genius 20 Margaret Jacobsen Cusick '21 Mister Detmold Goes to Smith 23 Charles Shain On Being a Black Feminist 24 Barbara Walker '66 Who Was Agnes Leahy? 27 Helen Haase Johnson '66 Letters 28 Class Notes 28 Opposite: An 1868 map of the City of New London. (Lyman Allyn Museum) • The College':::::.":~ _ General Connecticut's general education re- quirements have undergone consider- Toward Greater able change, particularly in recent years. The following general education descriptions are excerpted from CoUege Breadth and catalogues of the past. Integration 1919 The following courses are required Strong major programs already provide adequate depth. BUI the College of all students who are candidates for a is now seeking to counter a tendency toward overspecialization by degree. No modification of these re- strengthening its general education program. quirements shall be permitted except by special vote of the Committee on Administration. English-two courses, each of six BY MINOR MYERS points, of which one course must be in Composition, and one in Lit- erature. Foreign Languages, an- cient or modern-two courses, each of six points. History-one course All too often colleges have encouraged frontiers of knowledge in many fields, of six points. Science-two courses, students to think of courses required for and a sense of the interrelation of aca- each of six points, and one a general education as obstacles to be over- demic disciplines. laboratory course, chosen from come before entering upon what one It quickly became evident that the Astronomy, Botany, Chemistry, really wants to study-the major. And relative weakness of breadth and integra- Dietetics and Nutrition, Mathe- faculties likewise have paid greater atten- tion in the liberal arts curriculum was matics, Physics Psychology, and tion to building majors than to provid- due to historical trends that could be Zoology. Social Science-one ing programs of general education. As a easily traced. The eighteenth and early course of six points. Hygiene-one result of such trends it is not surprising nineteenth century college curriculum course of two points, to be co~- that one of our professors had a student stressed breadth. The faculty prescribed pleted in the freshman year. PhySI- who thought that Joan of Arc was Napo- a wide variety of courses for all students cal Education-four courses, each leon's mistress. Most faculty have similar -there were no electives-and the course of two points, one course to be tales, but how does a college establish a which the president taught to all seniors completed in each of four years. program of general education which is provided integration for the entire pro- exciting and which works? gram. Depth in anyone subject was When President Oakes Ames estab- lacking. lished the Commission on Long-Range The rise of electives in the nineteenth Academic Planning in 1976 he gave it a century brought great changes, bringing virtual carte blanche to deal with any as- depth but weakening breadth and inte- pect of the curricul urn it chose. As we gration. Students could choose their surveyed the B. A program at the Col- courses and their concentration or major. l<)JJ lege, we were confident that the strong To avoid excessive concentration, facul- departments provided excellent depth ties began demanding that courses be The required courses of the General through the majors, but we also held that distributed among several departments Group follow: an emphasis on the major had lead to a outside the major, and thus distribution l. History 1-2 neglect of breadth and integration. We requirements or general education plans II. Government 3-4 or History 3-4 concurred that the B.A. should include a emerged in American academic history. III. English 1-2 and 3-4 . solid concentration of learning in one When Connecticut College first IV. A literature course in a foreign particular subject, but we al~o felt that it opened, the faculty required 16 courses language (French, German, Greek, should include a wide acquaintance with in five areas (see box). This first plan of Italian Latin Russian, Spanish, or learning in general, an awareness of the general education lasted-with occasional a mor~ adva~ced course in litera- modifications-until 1953, when Con- ture in any of these languages) Associate Professor of Government necticut, like many other colleges, made or Minor Myers is the College's coordinator readjustments to its requirements. In Two language courses (if one of of general education and interdisciplinary 1945 a Harvard faculty committee pub- studies. Continued on page 26 2 rr Education at Connecticut these is a beginning course, it must lie perspectives on nature and man prepare a program of study for the sec- be followed by another course in One course from each of the two fol- ond semester of the freshman year and for the sophomore year, which will be the same language) lowing areas: placed on file with the academic ad- V. Biological Sciences: Botany 1 10 Area I: Biological science, mathe- combination with Botany 2 or viser. Some of the courses involved in matics, physical science, and Psychol- that program of study may well begin Zoology 2; Physical Sciences: ogy 101-102 Chemistry 1-2, Chemistry 3-4, preparation for the major, but seven of Area 2: Behavioral science, history, Physics 1-2, Physics 11-12 the courses will be formally designated and social science VII. Economics 11-12 or Social An- as the student's program of general thropology 11-12 or Sociology Division B: Studies which explore the education. That program of study is 15-16 different ways man confronts and ex- subject to review and revision by the VIII. Six points chosen from Aesthet- presses the concerns and values of hu- student. ics, Art and the Literature and His- man existence, where the contemporary Each program will include one course tory of Music world recognizes a multiplicity of from each of the following five areas to IX. Students must take a 6-point forms and solutions promote a balanced acquaintance with course in either Philosophy (ex- One course each from the following the major disciplines and forms of cluding Logic) or Religion areas: understanding of the curriculum of a X. Hygiene A and Nutrition A in the Area 3: Language and literature (Eng- liberal arts college: first year of attendance lish and foreign, ancient and modern, Area I: Biological science, mathe- XI. Physical Education in each of the and foreign literature in translation) first three years of attendance matics, physical science, and Psychol- Area 4: The practice, theory, and his- ogy 101-102 tory of the arts Area 2: Behavioral science, history, and Area 5: Philosophical and religious social science studies Area 3: Language and literature Division C: Studies which deal with the cultural or institutional inheritancefrom Area 4: The practice, theory, and his- the past which the contemporary world tory of the arts 1968 questions and may affirm, alter.
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