Word: successful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From an adventurous idea, the Seminar has after two years established itself on a permanent basis. Its success and the welcome it has had in Europe have persuaded other colleges to make plans for similar institutions elsewhere. It has proved that national boundaries and even the "Iron Curtain" can be transcended. Last month President Conant wrote of the Seminar. "At a time when there is a great deal of talk about international good will and altogether too little evidence that such good will is on the increase, it is heartening to know that the experiment at Schloss Leopoldskron is becoming...
...quibble with acting, in this case, is not to question the success of the play. There probably will be people who don't think This Sort of Thing should be put on by a Harvard dramatic group. They are wrong; this Kaufman and Hart is as good theater as Giradoux and as some Shakespeare. The HDC has a fine show this fortnight...
...needless fretting. "We feel," the report says, "that unless Administration is freed from its preoccupation with an incomplete program and comes to reconsider the more basic questions of personnel and of the incentives to actual learning, General Education may never become more than expensive half success...
...will be expensive, yes. But the efforts of the Faculty to promote the new GE program seem likely to produce far more than half success. The Faculty is approaching the questions of personnel and incentives with an enlightenment that would warm the Special Committee's heart. The scheme of split-appointments for GE teachers means that they will be able to devote much time and energy to the new courses; and in general GE instructors are especially skilled in the art of teaching, as distinct from the art of research. In addition, small sections, stimulating term papers, and more constructive...
...first problem in child behavior to be studied by the Laboratory will be the urge to compete with others. This particular drive was selected, officials announced, because it is one of the strongest in American society and accounts for much of the success and suffering of American people...