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...calculate that the New College plan, by giving up the attempt at a complete course offering (impossible for a college in any case), will make it possible for a faculty of 50 to give a first-rate education to a thousand undergraduates. This ratio of one to twenty will go with efficient size of classes: relatively large groups in lectures and small groups in seminars...
Murphy announced that his mail favored the stand he had taken last Saturday by a ratio of 11 to 1. Though he declined to predict the Legislature's reaction to the sales tax, he quoted an unnamed Democratic Legislator as saying, "I think it is dead...
Most criticized were the recommendations for an increased student-faculty ratio, with larger classes and fewer courses. "This is an academic version of inflation," charged Charles R. Cherington '35, profesor of Government...
Cherington admitted, however, that a higher student-faculty ratio would be inevitable if more students were admitted. "Clearly the Harvard money drive has failed," he maintained. "Our course now should be that of a still pond--no moving...
After a three year Ford Foundation study on the economics of higher education, Harris has recommended that the nation-wide student-faculty ratio be increased from the present 13:1 to 20:1. Such a rise would reduce the costs of higher education by $1.5 billion a year within 10 years, he said...