Word: academicized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The day has passed, if ever it was so, when a college was simply a place for learning the intricacies of higher mathematics, Latin, Greek, or science. College is preparation for living, and to be successful it must make use of many devices other than academic courses. Sports, publications, extra...
What this doctrine fails to taken into account, and what has led to the recent explosion, is that a ticket system like that now in vogue takes little cognizance of class standing and keeps an artificial caste hierarchy intact for four years of everyone's college life. The person who...
The Framingham hospital asked the veterans' group for tutors in three academic and two vocational subjects. Stanley Lofchie '49, chairman of the committee, requested volunteers for the work to report to AVC headquarters in Brooks House or at the AVC general membership meeting tomorrow evening.
The Queen Mother Margherita visited Maria Montessori's Casa del Bambini. Italian schoolmasters began to try out her methods. Montessori schools mushroomed throughout Europe and the U.S. As she grew older, the Dottoressa's stout figure, in its academic robes, became a familiar sight in lecture halls all...
Before the week is out a council of twelve, ten of them leading experts in special academic fields, will meet to determine peacetime uses for the University's mechanical calculator. Still under contract to the U.S. Navy, the "mechanical brain" which proved its applicability to the problems of death throughout...