Word: bard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bard College, in Annandale-in-Hudson, is free of many of the difficulties besetting Exeter. Working on a $13,000 grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, it initiated a pilot study to determine the practicality of a four-quarter program. The original announcement sounded like some sort of educator's daydream...
...Bard's Objectives...
...Increase the number of student taught by each faculty member by one third without materially altering the system of seminars, tutorials and individual conference courses that has distiguished the Bard program for the last quarter of a century...
...pilot study introduced independent work for academic credit into the Bard curriculum. Defined in extremely broad terms, this independent work was to be done during what had been known as the "field period"--the January-February period which had previously been devoted to work experience directed towards the student's interests...
...finale: Much Ado. It was directed by Ellis Rabb, who joined the company for the first time. Rabb is one of the finest Shakespearean actors anywhere; though still very young, he is one of a handful who can boast of having acted in all thirty-seven of the Bard's plays. He provided a warm, even-keeled production on William D. Roberts' stunning, three-story set, complete with lanterns and garden swing. As Beatrice and Benedick, Rosemary Harris and Barry Morse made a strong pair of unwilling lovers, spitting out their wit with clarity and verve. They were less reliable...