Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These recommendations are based on the committee's firm belief that "many able students are not doing their best under existing conditions because they are not sufficiently engaged or challenged." This situation reflects, the group claims, "primarily a failure of the present educational process to engage their interest." Although the group sees high quality lectures remaining a "crucial part of the Harvard curriculum," it also aims at "more individualized instruction and less dependence on the lecture and course examination system...
...Bicker" is the annual process by which sophomores are chosen for election to the unproctored, privately owned and operated eating clubs. The college newspaper calls it "the most important single value-forming experience of the average undergraduate's career at Princeton...
Individual sophomores are associated together in complexes of friends known as "preferentials," all of whose members desire to remain together with varying degrees of zeal. The exigencies of Bicker force most of these preferentials into greater or less states of disintegration, a process which widely subjects old friendships to severe strains and sometimes even shatters them. A sophomore's preferential group may also be used by the clubs to appraise and manipulate him throughout the Bicker procedure...
Jane Cronin as the Bridegroom's mother, one of the largest and most important parts in the show, tries too hard to be Sarah Bernhardt. In the process she forgets she is a woman and portraying a woman. Thus she misses the tenderness that must go with the hate that she must feel almost against her will. She captures little of the depth of soul or wisdom from suffering--"We want to hear the things that will hurt us"--that the script would seem to grant her. Richard Galvin as the Bridegroom seems slightly foppish in the part...
...Redstone dropped away, leaving only a short section of the nose attached to the spinning bucket. As it zoomed upward at several thousand miles per hour, a gyroscopically controlled device turned the missile's attitude toward the horizontal by blowing jets of compressed air through nozzles. This process took about 240 seconds. By that time the bird was at the peak of its first-stage flight, and pointing in the direction of its intended orbit...