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...secondary schools, but admission is something else. Not long ago, Andover sent 75% of its boys to Harvard, Yale and Princeton; last year it squeezed in only 43%, and sent the rest to 44 other colleges across the land. Yet Andover offers its brightest students a wider range of college-equivalent courses under the Advanced Placement program...
Kasavubu's Abako group campaigned for a loose federal system in the new Congo, since its strength is mostly confined to the Leopoldville province. Lumumba, whose party group has wider geographical sup port, felt he would do better with a centralized regime. In the end the Belgians worked out a compromise modeled on the U.S. system with elaborate assurances of local and provincial authority...
...hovers around a million and a half, Cleveland essentially is a noncommuter city, and therefore one with a home-delivery market. In such a market, a third paper is a luxury. As the News ran a bad last in the circulation race, advertisers passed it up to reach the wider audiences "of the Press and Plain Dealer, and frequently the 32-page News looked starved against its fat, 84-page afternoon opposition...
...term paper is of all these alternatives best adapted to a sustained effort on independent work. If the topic is narrow, the student must demonstrate sufficient grasp of the wider range of the course to treat intelligently one aspect of it. If the broad synthesis itself is assigned, the student has accomplished essentially the same things that he would on an exam, but with the elimination of the irrelevant variables...
...this renewed attack on poverty. In the earlier part of the period that he examined, donors gave outright to the relief of the poor. As time passed, they began more and more to set up programs of massive endowment to root out the causes of poverty. They provided for wider educational opportunities, according to Jordan, and they arranged apprenticeship schemes and systematized the buildings and maintenance of hospitals and almshouses...