Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years of his evolutionary history are rooted in life as a hunter, a nomad, an adventurer. Deep facets of personality and emotional needs are tied to his past Urban industrial society increasingly fails to meet these needs." gritty native spirt is only one part Prescott's unique educational program. The college has junked traditional academic departments and installed a system of wide-ranging integrated courses that bridge the gap between humanities and the sciences. The curriculum concentrates on great ideas rather than an accumulation of facts. The object is to help each student create his own world view, relate...
...Prescott's students take a heady curriculum in four areas: anthropology; language and literature; civilizations; systems. The language and literature program includes a study of the cinema as well as courses on the Christian tradition and comparative mythology. The study of systems at Prescott starts with an analysis of logic and mathematics, branches off into astronomy physics, chemistry, psychology and political science. The anthropology department deals with man's relationship to his environment, to his culture, and to himself. It ranges from courses in geography and geology to zoology-all backed up by six weeks of field work...
...Limits. Prescott's most novel enterprise is the outdoor sports program Convinced that students need more than the artificial competition of games Prescott has abandoned traditional team sports. Instead, it has adopted the techniques developed by Outward Bound, an international program of more than 20 wilderness camps that stresses adventure, challenge and sell sufficiency...
Next Vassar's trustees decided on creating a separate but coordinate mens college on the campus. When that kind of union seemed too slow and expensive Vassar changed its mind, decided to open an exchange program this winter with Williams, the little Ivy League all-male college (enrollment 1,230) in Williamstown, Mass. About 20 Vassar women will attend Williams, while a corresponding number of Williams men will move to Poughkeepsie. The exchange with Williams may be towed by similar ties with other men's colleges in order to see what adjustments Vassar must make to handle...
...exactly allegorical nor neatly symbolic -which fill them with dread. As the play progresses, The Sound drives the increasingly unsettled father into even smaller and poorer apartments. The members of the menage disappear one by one, until he is left alone with his battered, tacit adversary, known (in the program) as The Schmurz. What is The Schmurz-the awful awareness of one's own death? Is despair The Sound that drives this man into an ever-narrowing corner, where he babbles of flowers on his windowsill and dons his old uniform to fight he knows not what...