Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...baritone solo. The baritone was a local coal and sand man; the orchestra and chorus were made up of college music students, housewives and Spartanburg businessmen. They rehearsed for weeks, not only for the ballad but also for the rest of the 35-year-old festival's program...
Gerald Y. Genn '48, Chairman of the Crimson Key, announced that this would be the only activity this Spring for the organization. "We found that our organization wasn't sufficiently co-ordinated to carry out any extensive program at this time," Genn explained, "but next Fall we'll get rolling by the first football game...
...guidance through the immense number of courses open to him and some help in integrating what he learns. Otherwise, he is left alone with a so-called adviser and the concentration and distribution rules, neither of which are capable of preventing some students from sacrificing themselves to a narrow program and a dogged pursuit of the Cum Laude Cause. Nor can others be prevented from choosing distribution courses in far too haphazard a way to fulfill any of the requisites of a "liberal education...
...General Education program has been envisaged as a solution to this very problem. It is intended to provide students with a "common core of knowledge." Whether or not the program will eventually achieve this end is a moot issue at the moment, one that will be resolved only if and when the program becomes compulsory and is characterized by more of the suggestions made in the original Report. In the meantime, the undiscriminating methods of the lecture-books-examination system will continue in force, leaving undergraduates to their own varied, and in many cases, inadequate devices...
...summer session will last from June 28 to August 21, and will offer courses in all the usual academic categories. Credit will be given by the College at the same rate as in the regular fall and spring terms, with the standard study program reduced from four to two half-courses...