Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honors tutorial should be voluntary, interdepartmental, and House-oriented as much as possible. A student could join a small group that would combine related fields, such as History, Government and Economics; English and History; or Social Relations and Government. (The smaller fields have in many cases offered their own tutorial for non-Honors and Honors students...
Another concern of the study is how new educational devices can ease the burden of teachers in an overcrowded school system. The group will also study current English textbooks and suggest improvements...
...geography proposals were contained in a report made public yesterday after several years of study by a committee--headed by Arthur A. Mass, professor of Government--which consulted extensively with Henry C. Darby, a prominent English historical geographer who spent more than a year as visiting professor at the University...
...committee strongly favored the historical method of teaching geography, an approach which is the strongest in the English universities but seems to have found little favor in the United States. Maas explained that the historical approach would give the Harvard department a "unique" position in this country; could draw on the strength of other departments here (History, Economics); and would reinforce the integrity of geographical research, which some feel is being jeopardized by extreme and perhaps invalid outgrowths...
...created a stir in drama circles up and down the Ivy League, drew in droves of New Haven academics and New York critics, and was shipped off to Brussels by the State Department to represent the American theatre at the World's Fair. Charles A. Fenton, Assistant Professor of English at Yale, hailed the New Haven production in the pages of the Nation as a "moving and exciting play" notable for its "superb craftsmanship." "J.B., it's a pleasure to report, is good theatre and a fine display of a writer of genuine intellectual substance who has nevertheless always remembered...