Word: formalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disclaimer affidavit which the National defense Education Act requires is "inimical to the Protestant principle of freedom of belief," the Divinity School Faculty declared last night. "Moreover," the formal statement continued, "it tends to jeopardize the academic obligation of the Divinity school Faculty to promote freedom of inquiry to a wide range of religious and quasi-religious beliefs, as well as to a wide range of critical problems affecting the intellectual, cultural, and moral life...
What Shaw also confessed about Heartbreak House was that he wrote it just as it came to him, with no formal plan. He need hardly have said so; along with largeness of conception goes a looseness of treatment, as much sprawl as size. As Shaw's characters explain themselves and react on one another in an evening-long, often brilliant conversation piece, something veers toward tragedy, something else explodes into farce, a philosophic aria gives way to a dialectical trio, fireworks light up the scene, flummery disfigures it. Heartbreak House is quite marvelous in bits and pieces...
...fellows work out their edginess with darts and volleyball, are committed to no formal schedule of meetings. They dress casually, work in private studies with a sweeping view of the Bay area and a pool of typists to unscramble their scribblings. When a scholar feels he has something worth discussing, he pins a note on the bulletin board, expounds to whoever shows up. The talk is seldom trivial. Botanist Anderson, the corn man, was grappling last week with his unique specialty: a complex new method for "seeing" evolution as it actually happens...
...committee will present its report to the entire Student Council next week. Council approval will be the first step towards getting the hours changed. A formal petition must then be submitted to Perkins, Secretary of the Master's Council, after which the Master's Council, Faculty Committee on Houses, Administrative Board, and the entire Faculty of Arts and Sciences must agree on the revision...
...desire to improve is shown by the growth of independent study programs in the junior and senior years. Under the careful direction of Dr. E. Sculley Bradley, vice-Provost for undergraduate studies, the College's English department has established a plan for individual research with only two formal course requirements--a regular class in Junior year and a senior seminar in the major field. Bradley foresees a continuation of the trend toward independent work, and other departments are working to formalize programs similar to that for English concentrators...