Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While colleges across the U.S. took their well-deserved ease last week, one school was almost as busy as during the normal school year. At the University of Pittsburgh, classrooms and dorms were filled; the student-union lounge and the cafeteria clattered with noise. The Pitt Players were rehearsing The Solid Gold Cadillac, and such visitors as Poet Stanley Kunitz and Dancer Ruth St. Denis were coming in to lecture. Reason for the activity: Pitt is experimenting with a novel "trimester" system that keeps the campus humming eleven months of the year. As the number of students seeking a college...
Careful Planning. Masterminded by Pitt's dynamic Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield, the trimester system was started last fall for the freshman and sophomore classes. Juniors and seniors will be included in the program in the fall...
...college, go on to graduate school and embark on a profession while they are still quite young. As for the teachers, they can either earn one-third more money each year or, by working only two of the shortened semesters, find more time for research and travel. So far, Pitt has had no trouble signing up faculty members to staff the program...
...make it work smoothly takes plenty of careful planning. Pitt is busily revising its curriculum for trimester students, is splitting up courses traditionally tied together on a two-semester basis, e.g., Trig 1, Trig 2. To the horror of the students, exams have been squeezed into the regular schedule of each semester, instead of being allotted a week of their own. Pitt is also working on state agencies to revise the professional requirements for graduates. A law student at Pitt, for example, could finish law school in two years, but the Pennsylvania State Board of Bar Examiners has required three...
...boys in more than 2,000 schools, largest number in its three-century history. "At least 95%" were qualified. Yale's Dean Howe was deeply concerned that "highly desirable people are being turned down.'' Said the University of Pennsylvania's Dean of Admissions Robert H. Pitt: "I often had real difficulty with my own conscience at night...