Word: functionally
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Through studies and experimental programs, the Fund has sought to clarify the function of various parts of our educational system. In 1952 Andover, Exeter, Lawrenceville, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton joined in a study which recommended a special integrated curriculum to enable superior students to accelerate their educations. Fifty schools and colleges have joined in programs to bring about a more flexible progression from high school to college, involving advanced courses in high school and advanced standing programs in colleges. With the support of the Fund, twelve colleges have waived their normal entrance requirements and accepted gifted students who have...
...sophomore physics, Andelin was asked to prove "that a central force field is conservative." "Show," asked junior physics, "that curl grad V = 0." In senior physics: "Expand the wave function...
...Voice of Discipline. The President of the Republic, who lives in the palace of the kings, is chiefly charged with ceremonial entertaining, signing bills, opening trade fairs. But he has one decisive function: he designates the Premier. In the faction-ridden Christian Democratic Party, Gronchi is the leader of a group which advocates the "opening to the left." He is also his party's outstanding symbol of a leftist neutralist tendency. With Scelba's government riven by disputes, the danger is that Gronchi would, sooner or later, pick a Premier who would bring the Nenni Socialists and their...
...wouldn't even mind doing another play." When the 37-year-old Chekhov collapsed from a tuberculous attack in 1897, the great Tolstoy stormed past the nurses to soothe the patient with bedside chitchat, but stayed on to argue that a work of art only fulfilled its function if an uneducated peasant could understand it. By the time Tolstoy left, Chekhov had had a serious relapse...
...Rhinelander leaves Cambridge next fall, the University will lose not only an inspiring lecturer and a fine teacher, but also an administrator who has performed one of the most important tasks in the history of Harvard education-putting General Education on its feet and proving that it can function successfully as one of the most rewarding intellectual experiences in the College...