Word: experimentally
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During World War II, the Business School awarded "Industrial Administrator" degrees after one year of study. The experiment proved unsatisfactory; many students returned after the war to get their regular M.B.A. In 1951, 81% of the Business School felt two years an absolute necessity.
Beneath all this tinseled ugliness, however, there is hope. And the hope rests with that very college generation whom we so passionately accused. For all is not yet dead; there is a very real and persistent current of experiment in all fields. The neophyte painters, the tyro poets, the novice...
The "radical experiment," he was soon to discover, was the House Plan, which would be begun by the building of "a dormitory or 'House'" with the first anonymous grant, which was later revealed to have been given by Edward S. Harkness, Yale '87. President Lowell assured everyone that no change...
How to Raise Standards. Under mild-mannered, capable Clarence Faust, the Fund for the Advancement of Education has made its most important contributions in two fields: the training and recruitment of teachers, and improving the intellectual lot of the gifted student. In 1951 it launched its famous statewide Arkansas Plan...
Push v. Weight. Professors Morrison and Gold start off by challenging one of the most basic laws of all, the principle of equivalence. According to this rule, on which general relativity is built, a body's inertial mass (resistance to a push) is the same in a given gravitational...