Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would say Plato in general. Of course it is hard to rank them. Some are significant in some things, and others in other things...
...Harvard Young Democratic Club's general membership meeting will vote tomorrow on a proposed merger with the Radcliffe Young Democratic Club. Two years ago a similar proposal failed to gain the two-thirds vote required for approval...
...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...
Stanford has taken another approach--integrating the summer session into the regular academic schedule so closely that the 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...
Although he 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...