Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Cheit chides administrators for being overeager to keep up appearances and duck hard realities. Many of them, he says, are still not willing to organize their priorities on a systematic basis. But he makes it clear that universities have little control over inflation-not only in dollars, but also in...
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St. Louis University has scrapped its schools of aeronautical science and dentistry, letting 40 faculty members go in the process; at Harvard, programs have shrunk in the schools of design, divinity and education. Berkeley is doing without research institutes in social sciences and earthquakes; Tulane has dropped six graduate programs...
The Carnegie Commission argues that the long-range answer lies in new Government help-for example, a "civilian G.I. Bill" subsidizing low-income students. This would allow both public and private campuses to charge more of the full costs of education without becoming retreats for the rich. Last spring the...
Of the many forms of Buddhism, the one best known in the West is Zen. Its guiding principles of inward meditation versus doctrine, of emphasis on the visceral and spontaneous as against the cerebral and structured, of inspiration rather than linear "logic," were seized on by the early beatniks, taken...