Word: idea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judge of the Divorce Court is by Miguel de Cervantes, who was supposed to have written Don Quixote while in jail. Now we have an idea of what he was jugged for. The play presents several couples who appeal to the judge for divorces, and do not get them. Then somebody else comes in and complains about his wife, while nobody (either onstage or in the audience) listens. Then two musicians sing a song, and that's all. At the end, none of the characters is any better off than before, and neither is the audience...
...effective way of organizing such a program. Preferably the first semester would consist of mathematics and could thus be skipped by anyone who had completed this equivalent. Such an introductory semester of math might give the rudimentary concepts of functions, calculus, and the limit--a requisite for understanding the idea of approximation and measurement. With a semester of math under his belt the student could continue on to a semester of basic physics--perhaps mechanics and thermo-dynamics--to get the fundamental concepts of energy...
...Idea From Tutors...
...idea for the joint arrangement came from Winthrop House tutors, who praised the mixed tutorial groups established this Fall. Owen pointed out that the Winthrop-Comstock combination was a "natural one," since Winthrop tutor Donald R. Brown serves, with his wife, as Head Resident of Comstock...
Dean Bundy expressed his approval yesterday of the cooperative effort. "It appears to be an exceedingly promising idea," he noted, "and it may well point to an answer of the still unsolved problems of Harvard-Radcliffe undergraduate education...