Word: experimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The band played, floats lined the streets, a mob jammed the station and cheered. South Bend, Ind. was out in force to greet the NBC Opera Company as if it were a conquering football team. When the curtain opened on Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in the new...
It was potentially the most promising development in affairs of the Western alliance since the post-Stalin thaw set i -one that depended on the nature and the mood of the steps to follow. Bothered by the linking together of recent animosities and future needs, the London Economist warned of...
"In fine," Elder said, "we should encourage our students to experiment on their own, to attend the lectures they want for the reasons they want, and to come to know intimately that particular professor with whom they finally decide they wish to work."
The Civil War temporarily ended the Southern experiment in Eastern education. No longer did a John Calhoun enroll at Yale, or the son of Robert E. Lee study in Cambridge. While bitterness has passed with the years, the South still remains in half-isolation from national main currents of education...
The report considered the House system and possible characteristics of a new House or Houses, and also noted, that "the College should examine the possibilities of all manner of housing arrangements." It then asked, "might it not be useful to experiment, as so many colleges are now doing, with cooperative...