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...these newer attempts is the Radcliffe Seminars Program, a collection of courses designed to provide a "second chance," Nancy Downey, administrative director of the program, says. Created for students who have never completed their undergraduate education, have received their bachelor's degree but have found a new direction they want to pursue, or have married but are seeking a career, the program was established in 1950 after the privileges of older women in the Radcliffe community were curtailed by the merger of the Harvard and Radcliffe classes after World...
...seminar office has recently moved across the Radcliffe Yard from the Institute-Schlesinger Library Building to Fay House because, Downey says, the Institute building was "bursting at the seams" with its numerous projects. From the original eight offerings, such as "Japanese Culture Expressed by its Art" and "Ancient Greek with Readings," the number of courses has grown to 84, and the number of students has almost tripled in the three years Downey has headed the program. And since the first seminar was offered for extension school credit in 1963, the number of accredited courses has risen quickly; about one-third...
...seminars also provide an academic community where instructors, most of whom hold teaching appointments at colleges in the Boston area, may try out new or innovative courses. The instructors are asked to teach the "most exciting, non-traditional course they've ever taught," Downey said, and a brief glance at the catalogue of courses indicates that the program has somehow avoided selling out innovation to trendiness. As the program has grown, so has the number of male instructors and students increased. Some of these are men who hold bachelor's degrees and, in trying to determine what they want...
Putney Swope. Robert Downey's film has, with age, lost quite a bit of its bite, but it's still entertaining. It was made at a time when blacks were almost universally regarded as fearsome creatures, and derived a good portion of its punch from that premise. A black man becomes the president of a large Madison Avenue advertising agency by mistake, and proceeds to turn the company on its head. Particularly hilarious are the television commercials that Swope makes up, which put real people in stereotypical ad situations...
...makes a difference to those of us who train indoors all year," Downey said yesterday...