Word: helping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lowell, who had already established a wide reputation for being anything but complacent, set out on yet another academic crusade--tutorial. One of the most formidable criticisms of his plan for general examinations had been that the average student couldn't pass such an examination without help in preparing it. A tutorial system like that of Oxford or Cambridge was obviously the answer, but the University couldn't afford a staff of new tutors...
...groups. All the Greater Boston prep school boys were living in one little cluster, all the Cambridge and Boston Latin School boys in another, all the midwestern farm boys in another, and so on. Before making any changes in living arrangements, Lowell wanted to be sure any changes would help to break up and discourage these overly homogeneous groups...
Freshmen Halls Give Little Help...
...this ideal, Faust believes, is becoming overlooked in the increasingly specializing U.S. Faust hopes that more public debate will help matters. "Perhaps we may even come to see that education should not be conceived of primarily as a means to an end, but as an end in itself, that the acquisition of wisdom is infinitely more important than the acquisition of 'know-how.' " On the other hand, "it is conceivable that we shall fail to be wise about these matters and that a mixture of confusion in our own ideas and ideals, and of unthinking imitation of totalitarian...
...that time the big seasonal demand will have ended too. Even more important, the Treasury is planning a sharp reduction in its issues in the first half of 1960, may thus help to ease credit or at least prevent it from becoming tighter. The Federal Reserve would like to keep its present discount rate of 4% in effect even after a settlement, looks for interest rates to stay steady. Bankers do not expect a hike in the prime rate of 5% for some time, think that if it comes at all, it will be small...