Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long as parietal restrictions have been a source of discontent, so has the lecture-exam rote system of instruction. The idea has long been abandoned that a three-hour exam teaches a student more than a term paper or is more conducive to instilling a genuine interest in the material. The freshman seminar program, small-group instruction such as independent studies, and tutorial were introduced as alternatives to the lecture system--and with overwhelming success and popularity. But these programs all started in the 1950's and have expanded little since. Financial considerations have limited their growth...
...academic responsibility. Fourth-course pass-fail may entice students to experiment in unfamiliar fields. And Master Chalmers has proposed that students should be allowed to devise their own fields of concentration under the direction of an ad hoc committee if the existing fields do not fit their interests. The idea is not a new one, but its acceptance would be. Interdisciplinary study, despite its success in specific projects at Harvard and M.I.T.'s research centers, is strangely threatening to some departments. Educational theorists, such as David Riesman and Christopher Jencks, explain this narcissistic attitude by saying that professors...
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...said yesterday that he has "no idea" whether he will remain as City Solicitor beyond mid-April, when Dunphy is due to be replaced by a permanent manager. "That would depend on his successor," Cronin commented...
...broad-scale test of this idea was carried out at the Army's Fitzsimons General Hospital in Denver with wounded servicemen returned from Viet Nam. Last week in Chicago, Colonel Paul W. Brown told the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons that 56 servicemen with open tibial fractures had been treated this...