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...number of students enrolled in the one-year MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching) program would remain approximately the same, but a one-year moratorium would be called on the enrollment of new doctoral students. The Faculty-student ratio, now 1:7, would become...
...sphere of Washington wives with secure social standing is very different from that of the young single girls around the capital. Inevitably, though, the two worlds sometimes touch. Among young single professionals, the male-to-female ratio is favorable, and a bright, attractive girl finds the cityscape stippled with graduate students, military officers, fledgling diplomats, congressional assistants, Foreign Service officers and acres of young lawyers. Among these groups, Washington's divorce rate is high?but not among the officeholders, who regard Splitsville as a state that can hinder their careers...
Unfortunately, yes. The average male human brain weighs three pounds, a size exceeded only by the brains of elephants, sperm whales and dolphins. However, it is the ratio of total body weight to brain weight that is more important. In this respect, of the three above, only the dolphin compares favorably with...
Although I do not concur in Dean von Stade's particular formulation of the issue of male-female ratio in Harvard College, I detect something rather disingenuous about the uproar the lib-minded female students have made in response to his views. I refuse to believe, as the outcry from the libs would have us believe, that they were unaware that such views were common to men of von Stade's generation, and even to men much younger. Their own fathers after all, hold such views, as did their granddaddies...
...notion of a 4:1 ratio means that women are only one-fifth as worthy of being educated in Liberal Arts as men," Jones said...