Word: wesleyan
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Mosteller, who has published more than 250 articles and books, has received honorary degrees from Carnegie-Mellon, Chicago, Wesleyan and Yale Universities. He also helped prepare the landmark Kinsey report on human sexuality in the 1950s, and the Coleman report on educational opportunity in the 1960s...
What's more, a Wesleyan student last week filed similar charges against a group of schools, including Harvard. If he turns his case into a class action suit and wins, many students could be awarded damages for being overcharged. That could mean millions of dollars in your pockets and in mine...
...institutions that previously acknowledged receiving requests for information from Justice Department investigators are: Harvard University, Amherst College, Tufts University and Williams College in Massachusetts; Connecticut College, Trinity College and Wesleyan University in Connecticut; Bates College, Bowdoin College and Colby College in Maine; Middlebury College in Vermont; Hamilton College in New York, and the University of Chicago in Illinois...
...generation was lost. Spring Bamboo, published early this year, is a collection of stories by Chinese writers under 40, gathered and edited by Jeanne Tai, a New York City attorney. The variety of their expressions and subjects indicates that culture has begun to seep back to the mainland. Wesleyan Professor Ann-ping Chin offers more proof of recovery in the recent Children of China, a survey of youth in the People's Republic. "One cannot say that all China's cultural symbols and cultural assumptions were reduced to ruins," she writes. "They seem to be endowed with a life...
...during their five college years than Americans do in their four, and they take a rigidly prescribed sequence of courses. U.S. exchange students may therefore be discouraged by the lack of electives at Soviet schools. But the Soviets are astonished by the abundance of choices. One visiting student at Wesleyan signed up for a class in jazz improvisation; several are taking courses in Christian ethics, while others are rounding out their schedules with power volleyball and Nautilus instruction. "Knowledge is broader and more universal in American colleges," observes Lyaziza Sabyrova, 22, who is now at Wheaton. Accustomed to narrow specialization...