Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...analysis, does not want to be. These new doubts about Nasser, and his own attempt to improve the bargain, have held back the final signing of an agreement with him (by the U.S., Britain and the World Bank) to build the $1.3 billion Aswan Dam on the Nile-a project bigger than the Pyramids and infinitely more useful. Nasser last week casually let drop to the New York Times's Caruthers: "We have not yet rejected the Soviet offer-I do not mention [this] as a threat or as bluff...
...life. Says Wurster: "One doesn't want regionalism for its own sake, but only if it fits the problem." The firm's record to date has brought commissions for everything from master plans for 21 Air Force bases in the U.S. to a $14 million community project of the Ford assembly plant at Milpitas, Calif. What pleases the partners most is that clients no longer come in asking for something "modern." Says Wurster: "You can be sure that American colonists never asked for a 'colonial' house...
...thesis then is still a vital part of liberal education, and should remain central to any honors degree, the problem remains of rewarding the unusually intelligent student who has no desire to spend a good part of his senior year on a narrowly defined project. Seemingly, the reward of getting A's should be enough for those who do not wish to continue in the academic life, and if a grade transcript is not enough for the exceptional, a Phi Beta Kappa key would sufficiently represent to society one's undergraduate achievements. Honors in General Studies, merely as a reward...
...intelligent student, however, who may for some particularly compelling reason wish to avoid writing a thesis, should not be excluded from honors--if he can stay within its purpose. If every student receiving Cum Laude in General Studies were to do some intensive and creative project in his senior year, even a project outside his field of concentration, the program would be entirely acceptable...
...person theatre, accompanied by a small, 200-person theatre which would specialize in developing the talents of students interested in the stag. The building would also house the offices of the various theatrical groups active in the College. This proposal combines the actual audience theatre with the experimental, project-type stage, while the faculty plans are concerned primarily with the instructive aspects of a new theatre...