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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ambridge and Aliquippa experiment, known as the four-quarter plan, the year is divided into quarters, and vacations are distributed equally among four terms. Three-quarters of the student body is always in school...
...feature of the four-term year which particularly appealled to the Exeter group was its flexibility. Special plans of study for the gifted or the weak student could be easily achieved within the present schedule, but that such a feature would automatically accompany the four-quarter program was an argument for its adoption...
...addition, since Exeter derives more than a third of its income from a large endowment (higher per student than Harvard University's), experimentation with the curriculum offers minimum financial benefits. If Exeter increased its size and went onto a four-quarter schedule, it would actually lose money (per student), despite the increased economic efficiency. Although the loss would be a matter of less than $40,000, and could easily be covered by a nominal increase in tuition, the fact remains that, for Exeter, or any school or college with a substantial endowment, the financial gain of the revised curriculum...
...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...
Last week, the committee took tentative steps toward disaffiliation, by deciding not to attempt "drastic corrective action" while remaining in NSA. Instead, they moved to consider a report made last summer by M.I.T.'s three-man delegation to the National Student Congress...