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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grew out of a chair shortage in a fraternity house at Arkansas, whose students had watched their Ozark daddies squatting and whittling at crossroads stores. Hunkerers always hunker together, and girl hunkerers are perfectly eligible. Sophisticates hunker flatfooted. Real progressives hunker with elbows inside the knees, though this is difficult while "hunkerin' and hookin' " (squatting and drinking beer). Hunkerin' is not likely to be confined to Arkansas. Arkansas travelers have already exported it to campuses in Missouri, Mississippi and Oklahoma. Competitions are under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hanker to Hunker? | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...entitled "Great Texts of Literature." "The aim of such a course would be the fullest understanding of the work read rather than of men or periods represented, craftsmanship evinced, historic or literary development shown, or anything else. These other matters ... should be left for special education." It is difficult to contend that recent additions to the Humanities curriculum follow this outline...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: General Education: Program Without a Policy; Professional Pressures Replace the Redbook | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Most conspicuous, Humanities 6, a course which Professor Brower admits is not General Education in the traditional sense, has taken on a singularly ambivalent character as both an English department course and General Education. It is the only sectioned introductory course, and the enrollment problem has become so difficult that English concentrators were given preference among sophomore applicants last year and this...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: General Education: Program Without a Policy; Professional Pressures Replace the Redbook | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...disquieting pressure to participate, and the result may be an excessive premium on verbosity. Translated into a pressure to contribute, however, this discomfort too can be intellectually beneficial. The educational policy proves immensely valuable to those that can adapt to it, but the transition from high school is difficult. Some girls never quite make...

Author: By John C. Grosz, | Title: Sarah Lawrence: Experiment in Individualism | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...finds that, "These girls are more serious than the students I went to school with." Dean Fountain is a graduate of Yale. The girls back up this statement with tales of the many weekday hours spent in study. Just why Sarah Lawrence girls take their studies so seriously is difficult to analyze. Certainly progressivism must be given most of the credit, for the importance of education is emphasized and reemphasized...

Author: By John C. Grosz, | Title: Sarah Lawrence: Experiment in Individualism | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

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