Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ By early 1951 a crude thermonuclear experiment had been set up at Eniwetok in the Pacific-Operation Greenhouse. Says Teller: "What remains most clear in my mind is the contrast between the spectacular explosion, which in itself meant nothing, and the small piece of paper handed to me by...
When Director Edwin Spengler of Brooklyn's School of General Studies and his assistant director, Bernard Stern, first began working on the experiment, they had already decided that the regular undergraduate program (enrollment: 15,000) was not entirely suitable for adults. For one thing, some grownups object to being...
Last spring, after getting a $15,000 grant from Chicago's Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, Director Spengler and Associate Professor (of English) Stern asked the faculty to recommend adults for the experiment. Of the 130 applicants, Spengler and Stern chose 32. Each student was...
Conditions for the experiment are ideal at present, Hill observed, because the nation's public school teaching staffs are undermanned. "This is a perfect time to try this idea out. Secondary schools will have no difficulty in absorbing the influx," he said.
Since the war, the Housemasters each year have applied a few more bandages to the ailing House admissions program. Although they usually manage to bind up some of the more obvious wounds, they always fail to cure the underlying malady. Every spring, therefore, Housemasters face the same old problem in...