Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear more from Alexander Meiklejohn. Under the benevolent eyes of the University of Wisconsin's new president, Glenn Frank, he set up a two-year experimental college for men at the university that promised to sweep away all sorts of cherished traditions. The students-all volunteers-heard no formal lectures, got no grades, took no examinations. Instead of studying separate subjects, each isolated from the others, they steeped themselves in a study of Athens' golden age their first year, U.S. industrial civilization the next. The whole idea was to bring all branches of knowledge to bear...
Another indication of increasing cordiality came this year in the area of undergraduate life. Harvard's Dean Watson and Radcliffe's Dean Lacey, recognizing that men and women are working together in extracurricular activities, suggested that the time may be ripe to discuss a formal merger of undergraduate organizations...
...width and extends over a mile in length. The grounds run from Georgetown, the oldest section of Washington, to the newer but equally plush Embassy Row on Massachusetts Avenue. The grounds around the main building, which houses the library, museum, and study rooms, are covered with the most beautiful formal gardens in Washington. Not an American Versailles, Dumbarton Oaks, with its fountains, box hedges, and old shade trees, does manage to retain an aristocratic aura in a very democratic city. Right next to the house is a large, shaded swimming pool, theoretically restricted to Dumbarton Oaks personnel, but practically, open...
Grades draw attention because they underlie the whole system. Except for tutorial, all formal education at the College is evaluated in twelve steps from A to E. Lectures, reading, quizzes, essays are all treated as things to be marked, or the stuff from which to make an examination...
Competition with courses remains the most serious obstacle to independent programs. As long as the College emphasizes grades, any portion of formal education which tries to disregard them will suffer unless it is exceptionally well-planned and intriguing or the student displays a remarkable degree of independence. "If you are in a system that includes grades, you commit harakiri if you try to do without them," comments Harold C. Martin, director of General Education...