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Maguire said he expected work study will employ about 1000 undergraduate men next year, up from 600 this year, and 550 women, up from 275, squaring the program with Harvard's approximately 2 to 1 male-female ratio...
...larger concentrations, which must contend with a higher student-Faculty ratio, the reforms recommend that the departments offer special junior seminars conducted by Faculty members as an alternative to junior tutorials taught by teaching fellows. The seminars would contain a larger number of students than tutorials, thus sacrificing some of the intimacy of the small-group approach. Nevertheless, the seminar proposal would allow students the freedom to choose between small-group instruction and contact with an experienced professor...
Council members argued that often the group tutorial is, in fact, a preferable format to the "one-to-one, faculty-student ratio" which Bowersock's report cited as the 'ideal goal" of his reforms. In particular, council members objected to the report's implication that group tutorials only rate "second-best...
...matter how much the U.S. increases its arms ship ments, Thailand would still be hopelessly outclassed on the battlefield in all-out war. The well-equipped Vietnamese out number Thailand's 141,000-man army by a ratio of more than 4 to 1. And Viet Nam's battle-hardened forces are in a class apart from the Thai sol diers, who are led by officers generally more interested in politics and moneymaking than fighting. As nearly as anyone can recall, the Thai army has not fully mobilized for a war since...
Besvinick said only the reform establishing a more balanced student-faculty ratio on the committee actually helps students. The legislation provides for six student and six Faculty seats, plus an additional Faculty member who will preside as chairman and cast the deciding vote in case of a tie. Previous membership rules required eight Faculty members and six students...