Word: culturale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another recent change has been the formation of a partially civilian Board of Consultants, headed by Karl Compton, ex-president of M.I.T. After a study of the institution in 1945, this board submitted a report which concluded; "...the four years of college can best be devoted to education in the...
Later meetings will discuss "The Place of the Scientist in Society," "The Cultural Significance of Science and Its Role in Education,' and "The Empirical Method in Natural and Social Science."
In the field of entertainment, the Voice does an impressive job. It alternates the New York Philharmonic with jam sessions, offers foreign listeners forums, cultural roundups, discussions of U.S. science, literature, ballet, and dramatizations of various aspects of U.S. life (e.g., installment buying). To date, no U.S. comedians or soap...
Books lovers. It had obviously become-in the words of the University of Chicago philosopher, Professor Mortimer J. Adler -"the cultural center of the. West." To spread the tidings, persuasive Lynn Williams persuaded Chicago's Mayor Martin H. Kennelly to proclaim a Great Books Week. Kennelly agreed: "I think...
The Webster company, traveling in a bus, a truck and a station wagon, will barnstorm 87 cultural outposts-mostly colleges-on a six-month tour of 33 states and three Canadian provinces. Besides half a dozen technicians, the company consists of 21 players. The plays this season will be Hamlet...