Word: programed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Construction funds came jointly from the National Institute of Health and the Program for Harvard College...
...years later, during World War II, Fort Worth, Texas, instituted a similar program to take care of a flood of new students. But, as soon as they had a chance, all three communities abandoned...
...difficulty was not the program itself--educationally it "worked well," according to Dr. L. M. Wilson, superintendent of schools in Aliquippa at the time. But parental opposition to the staggered vacations and to summer work was overwhelming. Wilson explained that the school-board had "promised" to return to the old program when sufficient money was available, but strong community pressure was an important factor...
...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...
...maintain its position as national leader in defense of educational freedom, it is its job to organize a campaign which will unite the universities of the country in a vigorous and concerted campaign. This "concert" of institutions advocated by Dean Elder is only the first step in the program of lobbying and publicity which will be necessary to effect repeal of the oath...