Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this indicates one general characteristic of a small private school: the large amount of faculty attention lavished--for better or worse on all students. With a school of 194 it is still possible for the faculty to discuss every individual student in the faculty meetings following each set of exams. And in bi-weekly meetings the faculty, with two-week grades at hand, can discuss the most pressing problems at length. Not all students need, or want, or appreciate such close attention, but for many it is the most important service a private school can offer...
...certain amount of selectivity is implicit in these aims. Mrs. Hinton had a definite conception of the "good life", and believed firmly that the best way to prepare for it was to live it. The life at Putney is influenced most strongly by her vision of the good life: one close to nature, which benefited from the cultural achievements of mankind, but which escaped, almost categorically, from the materialistic side of modern civilization. The setting of Putney, in southern Vermont, and the dominating personal force which Mrs. Hinton exerted over the school in her twenty years as its director transferred...
...known to freshmen here as "Ideas of Good and Evil in Western Literature." During the winter, poetry, essays, and a series of about seven novels were read, including such works as The Brothers Karamazov, Buddenbrooks, and The Last Puritan. Two papers of about 3000 words length, involving a sizable amount of outside reading were required, plus numerous shorter compositions...
...typically American one--to spend more money. Enthusiasm for educational subsidies, however, gauged by Congressional action, is flagging. Moreover, a "crash program" in science or mathematics is not the answer. Dr. Henry T. Heald, president of the Ford Foundation, asserts that "scientists cannot be made overnight with any amount of money. They must be produced by the American school system...
...Administration hoped to deal with this danger was by a strengthening of the House system. One method would be to reduce overcrowding, and figures like Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, insisted that overcrowding should be reduced before College enrollments swelled. Another was to re-examine the basic amount of soul-searching about this issue...