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Scheduling difficulties, distribution and concentration requirements can prevent students, especially science majors, from taking a given course, but such problems do not necessarily lessen his interest in the subject. More lectures, like MacLeish's, not requiring any specific preparation, would give the student a wider opportunity to participate in areas of concentration other than...
...Philadelphia and surrounding areas. In relatively recent time, commuters made up 40 per cent of the undergraduate population. Now they number only 17 per cent of the student body, and the decline is due to more than the construction of new dormitories. The University now draws men from a wider geographical range than ever before, thanks to its expended and still growing Admissions Traveling Program. George B. Peters, Dean of Men, will soon leave Philadelphia for a week of canvassing the Kansas City-St. Louis area. Only one of many administration and faculty members who search the country yearly...
...conductor I must build up my repertory." To help accomplish this, and, more important, to provide more interest at the HRO's rehearsals, Senturia often conducts the Orchestra in pieces not meant specifically for concerts, a new practice this year. "This gives us all more variety and wider acquaintance with musical literature...
...convention, held annually at various American universities, is jointly financed by the Associated International Relations Clubs and the Foreign Policy Association, a non-profit organization to encourage wider interest in foreign affairs...
...travel to fill the new seats. While IATA international air travel has been increasing at a rate of about 15% a year, that is not enough to fill the new jet capacity. The obvious solution is to cut fares to bring air travel within reach of a wider market. The idea has already been tried on the North Atlantic; last year for the first time IATA allowed "economy" fares 20% below tourist rates, and the lines reported a passenger increase of 26.8% for the year...