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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legendary figure in Cambridge, Savides is remarkable for his little-known interviews with such figures as Dean Briggs, George Lyman Kittredge, and Bliss Perry. His piece, which follows, is offered as a bit of Dewey Memorabilia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dialogue With John Dewey | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

Piston now teaches graduate seminars in composition and 20th century music, and is known as the "dean" of the country's composition teachers. Piston is currently finishing a two-piano concerto. His Viola Concerto recently won an award as the best new orchestral work performed in New York during the season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Piston Plans To Quit Post At University | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...Ambridge and Aliquippa experiment, known as the four-quarter plan, the year is divided into quarters, and vacations are distributed equally among four terms. Three-quarters of the student body is always in school...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...pilot study introduced independent work for academic credit into the Bard curriculum. Defined in extremely broad terms, this independent work was to be done during what had been known as the "field period"--the January-February period which had previously been devoted to work experience directed towards the student's interests...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

...more popular History courses. None of these had sections or discussion periods; a fact which had formerly dismayed Vag, but which now rather cheered him. Resting against one wall, his recording mechanism purring quietly as the professor spoke, Vag felt a contentment he had never known before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Manned Satellite | 10/15/1959 | See Source »

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