Word: fulls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ransom Lynch '37, one of the members of the Exeter group, sees summer sessions, rather than the full-year school, as the coming trend. He explains that the difficulties of expanding a summer session are far less than those of creating an entirely new curriculum, and points to the National Science Foundation-supported summer sessions in public secondary schools to prove that there are possibilities outside of colleges. Even in schools where there is no selectivity in general admissions, special summer sessions are often restricted to the especially intelligent...
...school operates effectively for four quarters a year. This cannot be called the four-quarter system, however, for there is no general rotation of vacations (though Stanford permits a student to leave for any term he wishes, with no red tape). Many teachers are able to work for the full year, and considerably more students can attend the University...
...addition, Stanford has a branch in Stuttgart, Germany, which grants full academic credit for courses taken. The combination of these options gives Stanford one of the most flexible academic programs in the country--a student can take a vacation any time he wishes, finish college in three years, or gain degree credit while living abroad...
Forty years passed before Harvard again considered the idea of a three-year college. In 1949, President Conant requested a full and thorough examination of the entire undergraduate curriculum, to see if a three-year college program were possible...
...made his proposal in very strong terms, it was not carried through, perhaps because Harvard felt that it was already in the midst of one major experiment--the General Education program. However, this proposal too would have done little to ease the position of teachers; the problem of full use during the summer would have remained untouched...