Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gives a Shadow Faculty one advantage. Often all of its members get together, they do every week, they have some the most intensive and wildest on educational research that the school has ever seen. Last winter, fact, the debating got so intensive at the Faculty seriously discussed in the idea of disbanding and forgetting the whole thing...
...first dream to collapse was the "Crazy School." Some wanted to see it in Boston and some wanted to see it in suburban Newton. When the two factions failed to reach an agreement, the idea of a "Crazy School" was dropped. Many of the researchers also opposed taking on the responsibilities of school administrators, fearing that they would end up "handling clients" at the same time they were trying to conduct research...
Over the past few months, the researchers, Olds in particular, have created a new dream. It is neither a "Crazy School" nor an "Instant School," but a "Tri-School"--a plan to break down, at least in part, the idea that education should take place in schools at all. And, unlike its two predecessors, this plan will be given an actual trial, beginning in September...
...Harvard Undergraduate Council suggests that students write Masters confidential reports on resident tutors; neither Masters nor tutors think very much of the idea. The Radcliffe Government Association finally begins thinking of abolishing signouts, but when Mrs. Bunting calls is back it settles for a plan whereby girls can go any where they want without telling anybody where they're going as long as they're back by 8:15 the following morning...
...discount the upper windows of Wigglesworth--which is not such a good idea in the spring--the only building opening both into and out of the Yard is Wadsworth House. A yellow frame structure on Massachusetts Avenue, it serves as the University's architectural glad-hand and as the home of the Harvard College Fund...