Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...certainly be challenged by others. Flaws can be found in any utopia, and educators would be among the quickest to look for them. Without urging the necessity and inevitability of every reform included in the plan, however, it may be possible to outline for non-scientific studies a utopian program which would answer some of the most damaging attacks made on the educational structure of the College as it stands...
...contact with members of the faculty, and (4) inadequate coordination of all of a student's academic endeavors into an intellectual whole. The first of these points is generally associated with examinations, the second with the lecture system in a vague sense, and the last two with the tutorial program or lack...
...essential adjunct to the proposal is that all papers be marked carefully, returned, and, if necessary, discussed. Here enters the second factor in the utopian program: the conference group. This idea is not new to the College, for it is used in History I and many other courses. But to make the conference group the central factor that it is, for example, in the Princeton "preceptorials," it would have to be given a definite status and function and standard...
...good faculty men to make them successful, and in this case men of a particular stimulating kind. Were the conference group plan instituted, however, there is no reason to doubt that the departments could in time develop able young men for the jobs, as they did when the tutorial program began...
...Hollywood's fear that television will kill its theater market; another is that release rights of recent films are wrapped up in expensive red tape. More important is the fact that television's purse is no match for its appetite. The top price tag for a radio program (around $25,000 a week) would not pay for two, minutes of a big Hollywood movie, and the entertainment budget of the entire television industry is not as much as the soap companies alone spend on radio...