Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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But for the upperclassmen let the Plan be an experiment in self-education. President Conant himself has said the student must "learn that formal instruction is no necessary part of the educational process." The study of American civilization is particularly fitted for such an experiment; in seeking behind his personal...
Last year Manhattan's famed Progressive Lincoln School sent a group of 16-year-olds to the coal fields of Morgantown, W. Va., to learn how the other half lived. After exploring coal mines and living with Morgantown high-school youngsters for ten days, Lincoln's students returned...
As a gigantic laboratory experiment with language, Finnegans Wake is bound to exert an influence far beyond the circle of its immediate readers. Whether Joyce is eventually convicted of assaulting the King's English with intent to kill or whether he has really added a cubit to her stature...
The Masters have agreed that as an experiment for the year 1939-40, each House will admit 10 to 12 Associate Members who will be give the privileges of the dining hall, common room, library, and extra-curricular activities of that House. Associates will be selected from the waiting lists...
Last fall thirty-two Freshmen went to the movies and learned how to read. The Freshmen in this case were volunteer students, and the movies, rapidly moving words and phrases projected on a screen. Gaping eyes were taught to scan the printed page, moving quickly over the lines and making...