Word: thereness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It should be possible under this plan to graduate in three years, Case said, and the present enrollment of 250 should be increased by 50-60 per cent. But there is no sign that the full-year program originally envisioned will ever be used. When he announced the new program...
There is, however, little doubt that something must be done to make the summer educationally productive. A vacation period may be vital to the maturing process and education outside the classroom, but it is inefficient, not only because it wastes plant hours, but also because it fails to utilize a...
Ransom Lynch '37, one of the members of the Exeter group, sees summer sessions, rather than the full-year school, as the coming trend. He explains that the difficulties of expanding a summer session are far less than those of creating an entirely new curriculum, and points to the National...
Stanford has taken another approach--integrating the summer session into the regular academic schedule so closely that the school operates effectively for four quarters a year. This cannot be called the four-quarter system, however, for there is no general rotation of vacations (though Stanford permits a student to leave...
If the outlook for such solution is dim, however, the necessity is overwhelming. Without it, there is little prospect that the immediate shortage of teachers can be solved, that the ever-rising cost of classrooms can be met, or that the rising tide of those who wish to be educated...