Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the main the hypothetical nature of the College "experiment" has been outgrown, and General Education is now regarded with few exceptions as a good thing. Admittedly, details must be worked out, and it will be several years before an established curriculum will finally be adopted. However, the college has...
Edric A. Weld, Jr. '46, Council member in charge of Freshman affairs, was "very much encouraged" by the results of Yard-ling voting. "It was admittedly an experiment, and I think it worked," he said late last night.
Gropius catapulted into the world's eye during the early Twenties when he directed the Bauhaus school at Dessau. Here was a driving educational experiment founded on the iconoclastic thesis that an architect "is not an artist but a coordinator who must make all of his decisions from the point...
The engineers bore up well under the strain of quipsters' "Your programs aren't so hot any more," but soon found that the signal still flew out to Watertown. After a brief experiment with House drain pipes, they hit on the present scheme of piping programs through the University's...
Early program directors fishing about for something to the taste of their audiences soon found that sex, as always, did the trick. The first experiment was with Ann Corio, who cooed nice things about Harvard men and not so nice ones about Yale, into Shepard Hall microphones. So successful was...