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...college employs eleven fulltime television specialists, from producers to electronics repairmen, to man its studios. Most professors give two lectures a week on television. Dean Beckel sees an advantage in the ability to add graphics and photographic illustrations to the lectures of what he calls the "semi-live" professors. Television is not suitable, he concedes, for such subjects as English composition, French recitation, math drills and problem-solving in the sciences. But otherwise, he says, "you at least get no worse results than by face-to-face instruction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: A Satellite Built for TV | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...drugs were found accidentally in a semi-annual locker clearance, which was announced a week in advance. The coin-operated lockers, similar to those in many train stations, are not restricted to B.U. students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marijuana Found In B.U. Locker, Suspect Arrested | 1/5/1967 | See Source »

...spark plug that started major safety reforms in the automobile industry. Particularly among the young, paperbacks are used in a direct, intimate way-passages underlined, pages torn out according to need. That was unheard of a couple of generations ago, when books were still relatively scarce and semi-sacred objects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: A Cerfit of Riches | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...season games, the Bruins defeated Army, Connecticut, and Long Island University. All three teams are playing in the N.C.A.A. playoffs which began yesterday. Army is expected to continue to the semi-finals in Berkeley, California on December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brown Booters, Harvard Harriers Will Not Compete in NCAA Meets | 11/23/1966 | See Source »

...winning play is based on the unlikely life-story of Jim Fisk, whose remarkable coups in the world of finance culminated in his death-by-duel in 1876. Prince Erie will be the first musical (or semi-musical) to win the Anderson award...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Timothy Mayer's Play 'Prince Erie' Wins 3rd Phyllis Anderson Award | 11/17/1966 | See Source »

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