Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generalizations on Catholic students. Only 23 Catholics, past and present, answered questionnaires; one of the 23 is a convert and the others were born Catholics. Of those, however, who were reared in a Catholic tradition, almost one fourth now declare themselves to be "agnostics" or "atheists." Another six retain formal affiliation with the Church but partially withhold intellectual assent or seem lax in their religious practices, though they have no particular disagreement with Catholic theology...
Candidates in Cambridge elections run as individuals or with the unsolicited endorsement of non-partisan groups like the CCA. There are no formal party affiliations on the municipal level...
Together with the honors tutorial program initiated last year for juniors, the new seminar system represents the University's most promising educational development since the advent of General Education more than a decade ago. Both last year's and this year's innovations move Harvard education beyond the predominant, formal course system, which can often stunt intellectual interest by Procrustean requirements...
...whole business apparently began from a widespread feeling that the freshman year at Harvard is not all that it might be, at least as heretofore constituted. This feeling manifested itself in the discussions of a number of Faculty committees, and doubtless, too, in many formal exchanges. As Dean Bundy puts it, "we get an uncommonly large and peppy group of people here, and many of us have felt a continuing need to find new ways of sustaining the excitement these people have when they come to Harvard." Under the present set-up--the inference seems quite apparent, if not explicit...
...schools will teach Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hindi, Tagalog. More than 400 U.S. high schools will teach Russian; New York City and its suburbs alone has more high school Russian courses than the entire nation had two years ago. All San Francisco high schools are switching language study from the formal grammar approach to the U.S. Army's faster speak-and-understand system. More and more schools have "language laboratories." electronic playback units that let students compare their pronunciation with native voices. Next step: conducting science, history or English literature classes in a foreign language. ¶ Elementary schools are changing...