Word: annamalai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...instance, on the recommendation of the University Grants Com- mission, a certain portion of the Annamalai faculty has been trying for the past two or three years to gain approval of a measure that would put 30% of an arts student's grade on class work, instead of all on the public examination. To date they have been unsuccessful, but resistance has been gradually waning...
What does the average Annamalai student look for in and want out of his university education? Most students seem to view their four years or more in the university as the prerequisite to a "degree" and thus to a good job. A B.A. or B.S. degree brings immediate prestige along with the prospect of economic security. In India's status-conscious and economically precarious society, both aspira...
Outside the classroom, the life of the Annamalai student is in some ways similar and in many ways still in contrast to that of the Harvard student. Much time is spent in "bull sessions," or lounging in the coffee shop. Weekly movies in English and Tamil are very popular. Almost all students participate in some sport, organized or not. However, a special reason for the popularity of the "cinema" and sports may be the dearth of other extracurricular activities...
...especially difficult for Annamalai students coming from traditional village backgrounds to cope with the slightly more liberal situations at the university. The result is that Annamalai students would seems very naive by Cambridge standards in their attitudes towards the opposite...
Concern with international affairs is relatively high, but active interest in domestic politics, say as campaign workers, is negligible. In general, the Annamalai student participates less in worldly affairs outside his immediate personal existence than his American counterpart...