Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...number of years ago Yale instituted its Scholar of the House program, in which a few high-ranking students study completely on their own during the senior year. Last year Dartmouth instituted a three-semester program which would allow students to take more courses and give them the feeling that college education was not merely a convention that had gone on and would continue in the same ritualized manner decade after decade. Brown is now quite at home in its IC (Identification and Criticism of Ideas) plan, an ingenious scheme of middle-sized seminars for freshmen and sophomores, with reading...
...response was nearly unanimous. What they had done was to presume every student to be in the Honors program until he flunked out of it on one of three tests: a sophomore essay, a junior general examination, or a senior examination, probably somewhat more specific in nature than junior year generals. The committee requested that tutroial be increased in importance, that it be counted more heavily in weighing the type of Honors degree with which the student would graduate, and that this tutorial be given on an individual rather than group basis, and by as many ranking Faculty members...
...Arab Union. They ripped out telephones and ransacked the front office. With about 20 other foreigners, apparently seized at random, the Jordanians were loaded into a truck that started off for the Ministry of Defense. Among those seized were three Californians: Robert Alcock, George S. Colley Jr., senior vice president of Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, and Eugene Burns, former A.P. correspondent. The truck drove slowly through milling streets. In front of the ministry gates the truck was trapped by a stalled vehicle in front of it, and the mob attacked...
From their headquarters in Nasser's Cairo, the Algerian rebels erupted in angry protest at "betrayal" by Tunisia, complained that such a commercial deal with France was a "hostile gesture to the Algerian people at war." Snapped a senior Tunisian politician last week: "If the F.L.N. thinks Tunisia will change its mind, it is mistaken. What right has the F.L.N. to set itself up as the heir to French colonialism in the Sahara...
Died. Saxe Commins, 66, senior editor at Manhattan's Random House publishing firm, editor of three Nobel prize-winning U.S. writers (Eugene O'Neill, Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner); of a heart ailment; in Princeton, N.J. "The role of the editor," said Saxe Commins, "is to be invisible"; yet his hidden persuasion had profound effect on modern American literature. Friend and editor of William Faulkner since Mosquitoes in 1927, Commins in recent years cleared working space for the Mississippian in his Manhattan office and Princeton home, provided the right kind of stimulation for the novelist's production...