Word: experimentalism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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In 1955 Bishop Pike, then dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine, tried the experiment during a Cape Cod vacation. He persuaded his summer congregation in Wellfleet, Mass, to build a church, designed by Finnish-born Olav Hammarstrom, which groups 350 people around an octagonal sanctuary...
Figuring that the drilling problems encountered in piercing the crust of the lava lake to its molten core would be similar to tapping the heat of molten rocks created by a man-made blast. Rawson and Higgins set up a gasoline-driven rotary drilling rig in the middle of Kilauea...
Juniors taking Ec 98 will be the first undergraduates to face an oral test in an Honors field during the coming mid-year examinations. The "experiment," under the direction of the Economics Department, is an effort to gauge the "real thinking process" of a student, according to Werner Baer, instructor...
With these same aims in mind, Schreiber set out, five years ago, to organize Project 43. Begun as a pilot experiment in his own institution, the Project, sometimes called "Operation Higher Horizons," has now expanded to 65 schools and aroused the interest and excitement of college officials throughout the country...
Some people connected with the local proposal have seemed to view the peace corps as a kind of Soc Rel experiment for the American participants. To keep this kind of thinking from taking precedence over the requirements of the emerging nations, the University might invite the Nigerian or Kenyan government...