Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stanford has taken another approach--integrating the summer session into the regular academic schedule so closely that the school operates effectively for four quarters a year. This cannot be called the four-quarter system, however, for there is no general rotation of vacations (though Stanford permits a student to leave for any term he wishes, with no red tape). Many teachers are able to work for the full year, and considerably more students can attend the University...
...blame for this serious defficiency, perhaps, should not be placed entirely upon the Department of History. The study of ancient civilizations might provide a fruitful framework for an inter-disciplinary approach, with courses presenting the art, history, political institutions, and philosophies of these ancient cultures on the successful pattern of Soc Sci 111. Harvard may not accommodate a Breasted, but it could certainly enrich its history curriculum with studies of Memphis or Ikhnaton, of Nebuchadrezzar of Chaldea--a sore deficiency in the University at present...
More dangerous is the other approach, a smiling cordiality. Belief that sensible compromise will result when two viewpoints clash carried over to meetings with the Communists. Forewarned, we are wary of the Communists as a whole, but there...
...Albert Pinkham Ryder, by Lloyd Goodrich, is a scholarly and perhaps unnecessarily kind approach to an eccentric, ill-trained genius, notes that his art, being individualistic and emotional in the extreme, "seems more contemporary to us than it did to his own generation...
...most economists see any reason for making a price hike now. The British Radcliffe Report on monetary policy this year concluded that such an increase is not "immediately necessary or the most hopeful approach to the problem of international liquidity," and the International Monetary Fund has come out against it. Gold-short nations that need the most help would benefit least by the change; the major gains would be made by such big gold producers as Russia and South Africa...