Word: planned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...college hopes that this plan will permit increased use of the college facilities without the concommitant disadvantages of antagonizing faculty and students...
...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...
...Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia, proposed that the entire Virginia public school system should be put on a four-quarter program much like that which had been tried with little success in Aliquippa, Ambridge, and Fort Worth. The plan, which had met with great parental disapproval, was shelved when the segregation crisis occurred, and there is little prospect that it will be revived. Despite its failure, the Virginia proposal represents one of the first serious moves by a state system toward the full year school, and is memorable for that reason alone...
...gifts (from the same Edward Harkness who gave Harvard's houses and Yale's colleges), it seems doubly risky to introduce radical changes which could virtually wreck the school if they failed. The committee discussed the possibility of setting up a pilot group within the school to test the plan, but concluded that no really significant results could be obtained in a group of practical size...
...should be possible under this plan to graduate in three years, Case said, and the present enrollment of 250 should be increased by 50-60 per cent. But there is no sign that the full-year program originally envisioned will ever be used. When he announced the new program, Case said, "There seemed no way to make it [the four quarter proposal] acceptable, under present conditions, to students or faculty...