Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hospital has 90 beds, which are always full, and a talented staff of doctors and nurses, many of whom spend voluntary terms of six months or a year at the hospital. More important, however, is the hospital's efforts in community development. A serious program in health education and veterinary care is slowly bringing the people to the ways of change. Teams work in the fields with the Haitian peasants, teaching them irrigation, soil improvement and croprotation techniques. A school has been started for the children of the community, and construction at the hospital has given the people job opportunities...
Because of a reduction in a grant from the Ford Foundation, the National Merit Scholarship program will be phased out within two years, Peterson said. Sixtyfive of this year's freshmen hold National Merit Scholarships worth up to $6000, he said...
...Independent Study was never buried, we are now told, merely resting while the Committee on Educational Policy plowed through the specifics of two other HPC proposals--pass-fail and a reduced language requirement. The investigation of Independent Study the CEP opened this week promises some revisions in a program well overdue for structural changes...
Independent Study isn't what it used to be. It has grown (from about 70 students in 1960 to more than 300 now). And the CEP's investigations have shown that students now mainly use the program to create a course of study not listed in the catalogue with the supervision of a willing Faculty member. Originally Independent Study was meant to provide a mechanism by which good students could reduce their course load from four to three. The idea was that most students would choose to explore some obscure nook of their special field and would not want...
...done now. A lower rank list student who may be unhappy with formal course structures and no dullard, should be allowed to take an Independent Study if he has the ingenuity and initiative to set one up. Similarly, there is no reason to close off the benefits of the program to sophomores; Independent Study might liven up this year, whose sluggishness is legendary. The CEP should also make the signature of the sponsor and perhaps of a senior official in that department enough authorization. There is no point to the present rule which requires that all projects have the signature...