Word: socializing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maria is fond of lilies and orchids, which she grows, and wild about bullfighting. Having studied in the U.S. for a year at San Francisco's Sacred Heart School, she would like to travel more, hopes to take up social work as a career...
...that he could. Chicago set up a college that was to give a basic liberal education by the end of the sophomore year. Students who wanted to specialize thereafter could do so in the university. Instead of a hodgepodge of electives, there were only four main course divisions-the social, physical and biological sciences, and the humanities. Since students differed in ability, Chicago decided that they should be free to attend class or not and to go as fast as they wanted. All they had to do was to pass a set of broad examinations given, not by the teachers...
Kirkland House, not being satisfied with Concentration Dinners, holds deconcentration dinners as well. Classics majors get to talk about Social Relations or Chemistry concentrators may discuss world problems with someone from the Government Department. Other Houses have tried Concentration Dinners with less success. But not all the Houses have given the idea of informal education a chance...
...directed studies program takes about 40 students each year through the freshman and sophomore years and prescribes practically all their courses. Applicants for the program are screened to form a cross-section of the undergraduate body in regard to scholastic and social history, aptitudes, and predicted college record...
Lastly, Seymour has appointed heads of six newly-formed divisions: sciences, social sciences, humanities, arts, medical affairs, and engineering. The sciences division now offers three courses (Sciences I, II, and III) similar to Harvard's General Education Natural Sciences courses...