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Admittedly, the lecture system has limitations. It tends to induce a certain amount of passivity on the part of the student; it tends to widen the gap between student and instructor; it tends to over-emphasize the position of one authority, and the student is in danger of coming out of the lecture of even an undogmatic professor in a dogmatic frame of mind. Moreover, it can be abused. A few lecturers are unprepared and disorganized. Some, with the power of hypnotic verbalization, manage to hold their audiences through sheer personality rather than because they have anything important...
...fill what he conceives to be a huge gap in U.S. moviemaking-the hole between the multimillion-dollar Hollywood spectacular and the "very special" art theater film...
...race, it looked as though he might win. Snell was maintaining a 5-yd. lead, but the lanky Oregonian is well known for his finishing kick. With only an eighth of a mile to go, Snell lowered his head and started sprinting. By the time Burleson reacted, the gap...
...underdeveloped nations, where the Administration wants to encourage U.S. private investment. The Administration bill has three professed purposes: to clamp down on U.S. firms that channel their overseas earnings into foreign "tax havens," to slow the alleged "export of jobs" created by U.S. investment abroad, and to narrow the gap in the nation's balance of payments by restricting the outflow of U.S. investment capital...
...life any of Vassar's business? Vassar's weekly Miscellany News took a poll. It showed that 52% of Vassar girls loyally backed Miss Blanding. "The college must take a stand for the dignity of young women," explained one of them. "Drunkenness and premarital relations mean a gap in one's responsibility toward society." But 40% of the girls dissented. "If the speech were taken seriously," said one girl, "probably two-thirds of the students would withdraw." Said another: "If Vassar is to become the Poughkeepsie Victorian Seminary for Young Virgins, then the change of policy...