Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present revival of interest in course reduction follows recent expressions of the faculty's growing belief in the other factors of education besides formal course work. Recent statements by J. Peterson Elder, dean of the GSAS, and Kenneth B. Murdock'16, chairman of the Committee on General Education, suggested that courses and examinations be eliminated in the senior year...
Even when companies shy away from formal creativity sessions, they try to foster a relaxed, understanding atmosphere that will help people unlock their mental storehouses. Some 40 colleges currently have courses in creative thought, and thousands of companies are sending their young men back to school. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. has even gone so far as to send a group of executives t.o the University of Pennsylvania to study literature, thus broaden their minds. Dozens of others such as General Motors AC Spark Plug division, General Electric and Boeing Airplane Co. have set up informal courses within the company...
Much of the "paraphernalia" of modern educational practice should be done away with, Commager said. Large scale athletic programs, formal courses, grades, and many other costly and time consuming operations should be forsaken infavor of a self-educational approach, involving a more European attitude towards the learning process, he asserted...
...University, could not, of course, offer academic credit for these courses as do many other universities in the country. However, formal classes could be offered in various carry-over sports, as is done at Princeton and Dartmouth. Such classes would give students wishing to learn these sports an opportunity they may never have again. It would also provide an enjoyable way in which to better the often deplorable physical condition of the undergraduate...
...history of the Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard has been one of development from the fraternity which met regularly at Porter's Tavern in the early years of the 19th century to the more formal honors society of today...