Word: term
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...committee felt that the opposition of parents and the risk of decreased educational efficiency outweighed all the advantages of a four-term year. Against the additional attractions for potential teachers, the committee felt that fatigue and the difficulties of rehousing those who were not teaching during a particular term were serious problems. Against the economies of full-time operation, the opposition of parents and students was a decisive obstacle...
...summer session, running from mid-July to early September will be voluntary, as will the winter session. During one of the two half-terms, the student is required to do field work. The college will give courses, often doing experimental work in the brief term. This winter, for example, there will be one course given: "The Breakdown of the Nineteenth Century World View...
...have been repulsed," the leader of Britain's Labor Party concluded quite rightly after a severe electoral thrashing last week. This rejection, which gives the Conservatives their longest term of office since 1827, is a great opportunity not only for the Tories, but also for the Laborites and the Liberals...
...days of breakneck drive for growth in the '20s and '30s, writes Nove, "Iron ore or coal mines were 'creamed,' the best and most easily accessible mineral being taken as quickly as possible. The virgin lands campaign was launched with little consideration for the long-term problem of soil conservation. [There was] ruthless cutting of trees in the most accessible areas...