Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bard continued its study during the 1958-59 year when the pilot study was going on, and finally decided to modify the project considerably from the original arrangement of arbitrarily assigned quarters of work and vacation. Last July, James H. Case, President of Bard, announced that a new schedule had been adopted for the current academic year. Instead of using a pure four quarter program, Bard will maintain its two fifteen-week semesters, and add two half-semesters, one in the summer and one in the winter...
...Increase the number of student taught by each faculty member by one third without materially altering the system of seminars, tutorials and individual conference courses that has distiguished the Bard program for the last quarter of a century...
...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...
...four-quarter program, which has been so much discussed, thus seems to have little chance for acceptance. To institute it would probably cause a minor social revolution, at least on the secondary school level, for spreading vacations through the year would change the entire complexion of the student employment situation, now based on the great number of jobs available during the summer when most older workers like to go on vacation. Such a revolution would probably have to occur before any public school system could adopt the proposal on a large scale, for otherwise opposition would be overwhelming...
Stanford has taken another approach--integrating the summer session into the regular academic schedule so closely that the school operates effectively for four quarters a year. This cannot be called the four-quarter system, however, for there is no general rotation of vacations (though Stanford permits a student to leave for any term he wishes, with no red tape). Many teachers are able to work for the full year, and considerably more students can attend the University...