Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There he was, in a Cessna 120, flying at 4,000 ft. in bright morning sunshine above a solid overcast, over the Helderberg Mountains of New York. Married, father of three small children, an appliance-installation man, Stultz wanted more than anything in the world to be a commercial pilot. Under the G.I. Bill, he began taking flying lessons. This day, with 67 solo hours, he was on a cross-country solo hop, from Mansfield to Albany, to Buffalo and back. And he was hopelessly lost...
Bard continued its study during the 1958-59 year when the pilot study was going on, and finally decided to modify the project considerably from the original arrangement of arbitrarily assigned quarters of work and vacation. Last July, James H. Case, President of Bard, announced that a new schedule had been adopted for the current academic year. Instead of using a pure four quarter program, Bard will maintain its two fifteen-week semesters, and add two half-semesters, one in the summer and one in the winter...
...educational formula based on multi-million dollar gifts (from the same Edward Harkness who gave Harvard's houses and Yale's colleges), it seems doubly risky to introduce radical changes which could virtually wreck the school if they failed. The committee discussed the possibility of setting up a pilot group within the school to test the plan, but concluded that no really significant results could be obtained in a group of practical size...
Bard College, in Annandale-in-Hudson, is free of many of the difficulties besetting Exeter. Working on a $13,000 grant from the Fund for the Advancement of Education, it initiated a pilot study to determine the practicality of a four-quarter program. The original announcement sounded like some sort of educator's daydream...
...pilot study introduced independent work for academic credit into the Bard curriculum. Defined in extremely broad terms, this independent work was to be done during what had been known as the "field period"--the January-February period which had previously been devoted to work experience directed towards the student's interests...