Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Europe itself is the subject most painstakingly studied. Field trips-to Rome for art and architecture, to Berlin for political science-fill in the outlines of classroom lectures. Three-day weekends during the summer and fall allow long freelance forays. "There was." according to one report, "a definite trend to Lederhosen" Wrote Friedrich W. Strothmann, head of Stanford's modern languages department and, with General Studies Chairman Robert A. Walker, originator of the Landgut Burg school: the students typically "hop on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon and come back Sunday from Venice and Salzburg after having seen a Mozart opera...
...hosts, American undergraduates studying at Stanford University's experimental overseas branch, serve coffee and kuchen, talk exuberantly in often sprained, sometimes fractured, German. Last week Beutelsbachers were greeting a new batch of Stanford students, the second to arrive in Germany since the 30-acre campus was opened last summer...
...educator's recommendations was to deemphasize class rank as an important factor in college admission, so that bright students would not elect easy courses for high grades. For "highly-gifted" students, Conant suggested special work, a tutor, and college-level work as seniors. He recommended a tuition-free summer school operated by all school boards for ambitious students as well as deficient pupils...
Objections to a projected contract between MEBAC and the MDC were raised last week by the Group 20 Players, a Wellesley summer theatre organization, which protested against MEBAC's plans to lease the new arts center exclusively to the Cambridge Drama Festival during the summer. Group 20 asked for "equal time to share the ideal site," located on Soldiers Field Road...
...This has become so much more than an issue between two theatres," a spokesman for Group 20 commented yesterday. He noted that the producer of the Boston Summer Theatre and several private citizens had backed Group 20 in requesting the hearing "to point out why MEBAC plans will jeopardize theatre in the Boston area...