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Dates: during 1950-1959
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To millions of people's peace-hungry minds, Mr. Khrushchev's offer to scrap all armies will look very tempting and reasonable indeed. But I can mention a number of fairly prominent countries where the abolition of the armed forces would mean an immediate and effortless take-over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

I must, however, protest one thing. What you called a ritual may very well be one, but it is not the Kappa Sigma ritual that all our 80,000 members have participated in.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 19, 1959 | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

The most important possibility is that it would allow teachers to work all year round. By using their skills full-time, teachers could probably earn more than one-third more pay, since administrative cost would not increase proportionally. In a school with initially high salaries like Exeter, the increase would...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

But the committee felt that the opposition of parents and the risk of decreased educational efficiency outweighed all the advantages of a four-term year. Against the additional attractions for potential teachers, the committee felt that fatigue and the difficulties of rehousing those who were not teaching during a particular...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

All these programs for giving students a chance to learn during the summer fail to solve the real problem: until the summer session is compulsory, only a minority of students will attend, and a third of the year will still be wasted. A few students who want extra learning will...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Schools, Colleges Experiment With Full-Time Operation: Four Quarters, Summer Sessions | 10/17/1959 | See Source »

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