Word: programing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Since it was designed primarily for the pre-medical student, the Biochemical Sciences Department collects all the current literature on medical school requirements and how to fulfill them. Inasmuch as the department gives credit for all the pre-medical requirement subjects, the student can easily find room on his program for non-science courses. In general, the pre-medical student will find Biochemical Sciences well-adapted to his needs...
...Economics Department completely abandoned its tutorial program because of its large enrollment and lack of a sufficient number of tutors. In 1948, the Department restored tutorial for honors seniors only...
Ronald Colman is Mr. Popkin's knight on white horse, armed with an inexhaustible supply of knowledge. After watching a program called "Masquerade For Money," Colman decides that the level of intelligence encouraged by this program is the fore-runner of intellectual degeneration, and slowly forms a plan to kill the program...
...radio program asks contestants to represent something or someone, then answer questions pertinent to the personality of that object. Wearing a pair of book covers and a monacle, Colman appears as the Encyclopedia Britannica. He answers his first questions and wins the program's limit, $160. Rather than take the money he asks for a chance to appear again risking the money in the double or nothing procedure...
...picture is taken up with the successive weeks of victory for Colman until he eventually is trying for the $40,000,000 question, the one which will put Milady Soap Company, the sponsors, out of business. Vincent Price, company owner, has tried to keep him off the program by paying him and stopping the show but it doesn't work. The public is behind Colman, and when he doesn't appear, no soap is sold. Price tries to muddle his mind, by sending Celeste Holm after him; he has tried to find his weak spot by getting the moronic quiz...