Word: favored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who favor Harvard's expansion center their case around a single argument: in a national educational crisis such as that presented by the imminent surge of college applicants, Harvard, as one of the country's leading private universities, cannot stand aside and simply let the other institutions cope with the problem. Harvard has a duty to make some contribution towards the national effort...
...meaningless game, a juggling of materials into circular and therefore meaningless patterns. And so Rumplestiltskin was forced either to ignore what he was learning or else to stride pensively up and down his Elsinore posing endless alternatives until either madness or disaster followed his incapacity to exclude possibilities in favor of action...
...University during the past year, for example, groups as divergent as the campus politicoes and the literary avantgarde have concerned themselves with weighty issues of educational policy. Moreover, student concern has coincided with an evident willingness on the part of the Faculty to re-examine traditional methods in favor of such innovations as independent study, course reduction, and a general questioning of the course-grade system...
Numbers demonstrate the current insignificance of course education. It was first open in the spring of 1955, when ten students used it to eliminate one half course in favor of independent study. In succeeding terms the plan was used by 19, 17, and 9 students, while 20 used it this spring. No signs appear of any consistent upward trend, nor of any especially meaningful number using the program...
...strongest arguments in favor of increased flexibility for qualified students comes from an area that is intimately concerned with the quality of Harvard education, but is frequently overlooked by that system's planners. Radcliffe's Dean of Instruction, Mrs. Wilma Anderson Kerby-Miller, offered this view...