Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Department of government have always been focal points for tension and fluidity within academic institutions. The genuine need for alertness to new trends, the constant demand for viewpoints that are tuned to the minute have made this field one of the most difficult to teach and administer. A government department...
There are twelve men now teaching government under permanent appointments. One of these men is a Dean, occupied with administrative duties that leave little time for academic work. Two more are nearing retirement and thus are most justifiably shedding much of the tension and responsibility accumulated over long and distinguished...
After dividing the building into two parts, the College movied it bodily from its site on Dunster and South Streets to its present grounds on Boylston and South. There in 1931 the men of Kirkland came in to make academic use of the old building. Today its beer-mugs, low...
As a possible solution, it suggested that the Committee on Admission's present "wide discretionary power" be used to encourage more strict secondary school preparation where it has become lax, at the same time admitting any student who has demonstrated his academic ability.
To give genius a better chance, Professor Corey's committee recommended that a National Commission for the Identification of Talented Youth be set up. The Commission would stage a talent hunt through every high school in the land, using tests to find the top tenth of 1% in each...