Word: reportable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Last summer 13 experts grappled with this prospect in a two-week symposium at Amherst College's Merrill Center for Economics in Southampton, N.Y. This month McGraw-Hill Book Co., sponsor of the meeting, published the results in a 304-page report (Financing Higher Education: 1960-70). Among the conclusions: 1) U.S. colleges will need 50% more teachers (450,000); 2) a full professor's salary must be doubled to an average $17,000. Key guesstimate: while U.S. higher education now spends $3.6 billion annually, by 1970 it will need at least $9.8 billion...
...past 55 years. Result: too many small classes. And a "high-quality" school that maintains an extra-low teacher-student ratio may be fooling itself: when it has more teachers than it can pay adequately, their performance suffers. By increasing the ratio, says the report, "most colleges can ease their financial problems very substantially without reducing the quality of their instruction...
...complete that she belongs to a Brownie troop, takes swimming lessons, rollerskates, and sings in her Baptist church children's choir. She pretty well ignores her handicap and so do her teachers. Says her father: "It gives you a terrific boost when your kid comes home with a report card that you know is an honest report card." So normal does Pamela seem to her classmates that one crew-cut lad pays her the ultimate compliment of an eternal complaint: "Her? Oh, she's just one of those noisy girls...
Last week the cross-Channel dig was back in the news. After two years of underwater testing and 56,000 interviews with Dover-to-Calais travelers, a combined group of English, French and U.S. engineers and economists prepared to announce, in a $700,000 report, that a tunnel through the chalk strata between England and France was both technically and economically feasible. Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, onetime head of the Foreign Office, and now co-chairman of the Channel Tunnel Study Group, indicated that the 36-mile rail tunnel under the Channel would cost over $300 million, could bring...