Word: select
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lightning advances under Eliot left many patches of ground to be filled by his successors, Lowell and Conant. The elective system, allowing undergraduates to select any courses they wanted from a rapidly burgeoning catalogue, had made education infinitely more exciting, but it also opened doors to dilletantism. Some students filled their whole programs with relatively easy survey courses from many fields. The "gentleman's C" was the rage. Others, more earnest, took all their courses in the same field...
Nathan Marsh Pusey will become the 24th President of Harvard University this afternoon in the Faculty Room of University Hall before a select group of about 200 invited guests...
...representatives of Harvard, the students will mingle with a select crowd of nearly 200. The other guests have been selected from the faculties of the various departments...
...week. The teachers have discovered that starting this half year earlier greatly speeds the social development of the child. Rumor has it that just the other day a group of male two and a-half year olds were huddled in the corner, pencils and paper in hand, trying to select Miss Radcliffe...
Incoming freshmen would select their survey courses only after taking a battery of tests and examinations to determine aptitude and general ability...