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...worthwhile as many instructors claim. There is no refuting the statistic's importance; if papers do not help students understand a course, they are valueless. But it is clear that essays afford opportunities for thorough research and original thought, and that their failure indicates poor administration. If papers are assigned thick and fast, and if their topics do not require more than a regurgitation of facts, they are bound to be inconsequential. The Council Report applied the same reasoning to courses which assign so many books that none could be given the careful consideration they deserve...
...suggested that men change their attitudes towards domestic tasks and assign them a worth that will spur women on to truly creative accomplishments. Americans should change our sense of values to give non-economic activity the same regard as money-making, she concluded...
Earlier, the University had intended to close both Apley and Claverly this year. Last March 15, Watson announced that 100 percent of the Class of '54 would be in the Houses and he would assign no future sophomores to the so-called "outhouses...
...Social Relations Department, while trying to eliminate malpractices among its thesis-writing students, has chosen to overlook a particularly outrageous policy on the part of its thesis-supervising faculty members. These professors, anxious to complete a pet research project, simply assign the problem to a willing senior, putting office staff, equipment, and expense accounts at his disposal, and later accepting his results as an honors thesis. Thus students in other departments, working independently, must watch a privileged few get their ideas and procedures devised by faculty members and handed to them on a silver platter. This is especially unfair...
...common discipline, under single command and responsibility -not to individual governments but to all the member governments." A High Authority made up of representatives of the six countries would oversee its 43 divisions, its 560,000 ground combat troops. A Commissioner of Defense with broad powers would boss it, assign military commanders, set a common military budget, allocate military aid. Important undertakings such as U.N. and NATO involve no such surrender of national sovereignty...