Word: institutionalize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From an adventurous idea, the Seminar has after two years established itself on a permanent basis. Its success and the welcome it has had in Europe have persuaded other colleges to make plans for similar institutions elsewhere. It has proved that national boundaries and even the "Iron Curtain" can be...
"S 133 oversimplifies the complex business of selective admissions," said Paul M. Chalmers, assistant director of admissions at M.I.T., who stated his institution's opposition to the bill.
The report's central thesis is that "Harvard education has failed to recognize or to assess the implications of the basic problem of teacher-centered versus student-oriented education. It is the difference between viewing a college as an institution in which teachers teach as opposed to one in which...
Merle Tuve, physicist and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, summed up: "The broad problem we are examining is whether our society is now so intensively organized that the individual is becoming helpless and ineffective . . ."
Letters of Gold. This week, on its 25th anniversary as a public institution, the Morgan Library, housed in a Renaissance-style mansion on Manhattan's East 36th Street, paid tribute to its first director. The staff had placed on exhibition some 256 items-the best of the treasures that...