Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When President Lowell took the reins of authority in 1909, he instituted new distribution requirements for a degree, rendering graduation in three years impossible. The idea, however...
Reducing the number of years required for an A.B. degree is hardly a new idea. President Eliot proposed such a plan to the Board of Overseers every year from 1883 through 1908, and each year it was rejected...
...myth that has always been present in what Jung calls nan's collective unconscious. The resurrection of gods and half-gods is a familiar mythological symbol, says Tillich, and he Jews of Jesus' time believed in the future resurrection of martyrs. Thus "the application of the idea of resurrection to the Christ was almost unavoidable...
...months passed it became obvious that the Pasadena idea was not working out. The staff had to plane back and forth across the continent so much that they began calling the foundation the "Fund for the Advancement of Aviation." To make matters worse, Hoffman infuriated Henry Ford II by inadvertently leaking to the press that the Ford Motor Co. might put some of its Ford stock on the market. Finally, at President Eisenhower's first inauguration, Ford told Hoffman: "This is the end, Paul." A month later the trustees also rose against Hoffman, elected Rowan Gaither president and ordered...
...attract more public-school teachers by giving liberal-arts graduates one year of training and internship instead of the tedious mishmash of courses usually doled out by schools of education. Though Arkansas is perhaps too poor a state to carry on such an experiment successfully, the fifth-year idea has spread to more than 25 other communities and universities...