Word: programed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the two words "Freshman Program" first came into common usage around the Cambridge Community last spring, they have been the source of a considerable amount of confusion, curiosity, and controversy. Shrouded in mystery at their birth, they at once began to arouse high hopes in some Harvard circles, and deep apprehension and suspicion in others...
Late in the summer, the word "Seminar" was added to give the project a degree of concreteness, and three weeks ago a "catalogue" was sent to freshmen listing 22 proposed study groups. Entitled the "Freshman Seminar Program," the groups will include a total of 150 to 175 freshmen, who in many cases need qualify only with "enthusiasm and lively interest." Despite the fact that the program has been established well enough to present a seminar curriculum, the ideas and opinions of its organizers are still in a state of flux. Approach a dozen men leading seminar groups and a dozen...
...some point last spring, a financial "angel" entered the picture, and herein lies another of the elements of mystery surrounding the Program. He has wished to remain anonymous, and so far this wish has been fulfilled. The scuttlebutt has it, however, that he is a wealthy alumnus who remembers his own freshman year with something less than enthusiasm, and who approached the Administration with a desire to improve the lot of future Harvard initiates. Quite likely, his generosity has by now been supplemented by support from other sources. At any rate, money does not seem to have been a serious...
...time to think the matter out in any very careful or systematic fashion. However, some of the people most involved will say privately that this was not the whole reason. According to them, the new Faculty-members who had begun laying definite plans for the Program decided that passage of the resolution could be best assured by avoiding discussion of specifics. It would be very hard, of course, to prove that such a strategem was ever consciously planned and carried out; but this report typifies the atmosphere of intrigue--and suspicion of intrigue--in which the Program...
...objected strongly to authorizing such a "blank-check" kind of operation, but they were apparently argued down. The resolution was passed, with the provision that it was to apply for one year only, after which time the "experiments" would be thoroughly reviewed. Authorization to extend the Program beyond a year could come only from a new Faculty vote next...