Word: formalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time that the Ford Foundation set up the Fund for the Advancement of Education, the second subsidiary agency was established--the Fund for Adult Education. Founded to provide adults with liberal education beyond formal schooling, the Fund seeks to foster "the ability to think independently and the habit of critical thought rather than passive acceptance of ready-made opinions...
...useful modification of rather than an illusory shortcut to education, the Advanced Standing program will try to smooth the transition between high school and college for those gifted students who are retarded by formal requirements...
...such phrases as] security risk, Q-clear-ance, confidential, secret, top secret." More important, he would find that the old compartments of knowledge no longer have their old rigid meanings. At Caltech it is possible to find a top geologist, e.g., Harrison Brown, who has never taken a formal course in geology. It is not only possible, but standard operating procedure for the scholars of Caltech to invade each other's fields as if no walls had ever existed between them at all. "Nature," says Physicist Bacher, "is not physics or chemistry or biology. It is all three...
...first attack came several hours before the Saturday formal dance, when the pair apparently crept into the balcony overlooking the dance floor and spread the chemicals on the floor and railings. The second bomb was thrown into the main entrance of the Union...
...formal merger of the two institutions is involved, and each will retain its individual observatories and other properties. Most of the Smithsonian Observatory's work will be done here, where research will be correlated, but it will continue to utilize its observatories in Chile and California...