Word: moring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last summer 13 experts grappled with this prospect in a two-week symposium at Amherst College's Merrill Center for Economics in Southampton, N.Y. This month McGraw-Hill Book Co., sponsor of the meeting, published the results in a 304-page report (Financing Higher Education: 1960-70). Among the...
Cut Classes. Finding the needed $6.2 billion might well begin with revamping antiquated college management, which Ford Foundation Economist Philip H. Coombs calls "a relatively primitive art, even in institutions that offer a Ph.D. in accounting." Waste of facilities is all too common. Coombs cites one survey of more than...
Another "scandal," says Harvard Economist Seymour E. Harris, is proliferation of college courses. By his count, undergraduate courses at eleven top institutions have jumped from 12,000 to 39,000 in the past 55 years. Result: too many small classes. And a "high-quality" school that maintains an extra-low...
In the 57-year history of Rhodes scholarships, no school has ever won more than five of the annual 32 open to U.S. colleges and universities. Last week Harvard broke the bank with a record seven,* compared to five last year, when it tied with West Point. Harvard's...
It was only part of his year's work. He helped three friends write books on subjects as diverse as phenomenology, Socrates and sea power. He tackled five major translations, including a 600-page history of German literature and two German plays (he has four more in the works...