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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...junior college faculties and WTTW's staff worked all summer preparing for their opening. For the first experimental year, they settled on four subjects: English, biology, political and social science. Though the academic content was left entirely to the academics, each course was treated as a "show," with its own producer and technical staff. Out of more than 30 faculty volunteers, the colleges and TVmen picked twelve who seemed both able and telegenic enough to go over. Then, after a series of auditions, they chose each show's "star." But behind the four stars is a staff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: TV College | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...University is not exactly content, with all due respect to Franklin, with what it is or has been. There is a growing doubt that Ben was the last word in education, and Penn, sprawling in the midst of grubby Philadelphia, is gradually coming to the conclusion that it is in the midst of the twentieth century. Like a huge, furry bear, it awakes from an educational hibernation, rubs its eyes, and scratches itself...

Author: By Adam Clymer and George H. Watson, S | Title: Penn Stresses the Useful and the Ornamental | 11/3/1956 | See Source »

...special importance in Harvard's conception of education is the environment in which learning goes on. Harvard provides good intellectual conditions for its faculty and students. Our libraries, laboratories, and museums are of high quality. We cannot, however, afford to rest content. It is necessary endlessly to be concerned with the improvement of environmental conditions in order to build here in Cambridge a modern community of learning of highest excellence in all respects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Full Text of Pusey's Report to the Overseers | 10/31/1956 | See Source »

...wide (70 mm.) as the normal Hollywood stock-and has projected it on one of the world's largest indoor screens-a vast concave gullet that opens almost as wide as Cinerama, and possesses much of the same power to suck the spectator out of his seat. Not content with that, Todd flooded this huge surface with a light almost twice as intense as any ever seen onscreen before, and so hot that the film has to be refrigerated as it passes through the Todd-AO projector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 29, 1956 | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Selove also said that the danger from cancer-causing radio-strontium depends partly on the concentration of natural calcium in a particular area. Thus some areas, particularly low in calcium, will have a very high relative content of strontium which tends to mix with the calcium and be consumed by human beings...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Selove Calls Radioactive Danger Great | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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