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...magazine which presumably hopes to appeal to a college audience, The Free Student's articles are intellectually disappointing and occasionally insulting to the intelligence of the reader. One piece titled "Repression and Rebellion at Brooklyn College" begins, "Students at Brooklyn College are about to rise up in mass protest against new dress regulations which forbid girls to wear slacks on campus at any time, and which forbid boys to wear dungarees...
...behind the public facade of the Fifth Republic, Viansson-Ponte confirms a startling number of cliches about De Gaulle's dictatorial techniques from the vantage-point of an insider. In crediting these cliches The King and His Court of course says nothing new, but is does give the American reader a renewed sense of how deeply De Gaulle's pretensions direct the fortunes of modern France...
...courses) outside the department of concentration. In order to work out a set of rules to put such a program into effect, we have broken down the problem into a series of questions. To each of these we have proposed an answer. A glance at these will give the reader a quick idea of the sort of requirements we have in mind. The entire proposal does not depend upon any single answer, however, and each question should be considered separately...
...Annamalai include working effectively within the externally determined syllabi and examinations. Some professors feel their creativity is hampered. But this national system does lend stability to the educational process in a time of great change. The promotional process is also accause for some concern. Advancement from lecturer to reader to professor is based entirely on seniority. In addition, a general policy of one professor to one department serves to maintain the average age of an Annamalai professor at about...
...general feeling pervades the young, dynamic segment of the profession that many significant reforms should come within the next five or ten years. While many teachers are willing to criticize the system, some balk at efforts to effect concrete change. As one reader put it, they have too much of a stake in the old ways, in preserving the practices which make a teacher's job in some ways one of the least demanding in India today...