Word: experimentally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Hellabrunn horses are a modern throwback to that ancient breed-the end products of careful experiment. Unlike the average horseman, who works at improving the breed, Geneticist Heinz Heck, the Hellabrunn Zoo's director, has spent most of his professional life looking backward. He created the ersatz tarpans...
Sandino & Liberty Boats. He learned. He kept on learning in the years which followed-years in which the Marines at one point had fewer men than the New York City police force. As always, some Marines were in battle-fighting in the Nicaraguan hills against the rebel Sandino. Others were...
But the original premise of the experiment, that all students would be automatically drafted at 18 1/2, has not materialized. And Yale, Chicago, Columbia, and Wisconsin, the four colleges engaged in the program, are left with the project--for better or for worst.
In October of this year, the Yale Daily News commented, "The Ford Foundation's unfortunate experiment in college education for students of high school age... (is) ... a costly and misguided program, which, despite its many apologists has been throroughly unsuccessful at Yale.... The experience of last year's groups, now...
The editorial drew sharp criticism from the Dean of Yale, William C. DeVane, in a letter to the News. "The assumption, not expressed explicitly by the writer, is that the experiment of Yale must be judged a failure because the young scholars are unready to enter successfully into the social...