Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relatively short time ago only five percent of the college-age group were applying, but this figure has risen to 30 percent at the present time...
...years. Involved in the new proposal was a complete revamping of the curriculum. Educators suggested a three-term-per-year plan to ease the revision, instead of the present two-term system. Emphasis in courses would undergo sweeping change. Less specialization in the upperclass years would be required. In short, the whole theory of undergraduate education would be re-examined; the curriculum and courses would be submitted to a scrutiny unique in College history...
There is a deep concern that the undergraduate years may become a transitory stop-gap, a short breather between secondary school and graduate education. Within such a concept, College education would wither; the contribution would deteriorate, and the meaning of an A.B. degree would diminish...
...took him four short years to discover that Harvard, wise as it was, had no idea what his mind was like, and so was utterly incapable of improving it. It took him a lifetime to discover that he was equally ignorant of himself, and was equally incapable of directing destiny...
...democracy puts the fulfillment of opportunity up to its citizens, the new Yale College program puts the fulfillment of opportunity up to its students." The Scholar of the House program goes further, but both innovations support Griswold's idea that for "the student of unusual maturity and ability... nothing short of a maximum challenge will evoke a maximum response...