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...utilize classrooms and highly-paid professors' time as effectively as would a four-term program--three terms in the fall, winter, and spring, and one in the present summer vacation. The present framework is overly rigid, lacking the flexibility and experimentation possible under a revised system. Students could attend any of the ten-week terms; without taking a summer vacation, a student could graduate in three years. The academic load might be changed to three courses. Rescheduling and calendar shuffling certainly are not expensive, considering the manifest advantages, and have been proved worthwhile at Dartmouth and Pittsburgh...
Armed Assault. In the coastal areas where the Dutch exercise firm administrative control, some 30,000 Papuans attend primary school, and one lone native is a student at a university in The Netherlands. Next month the Papuans will hold their first election ever for a New Guinea-wide council, to which the Dutch will turn over the power to pass its own ordinances regulating health, marriage, crime, labor and taxes...
...expect any return from their taxes." Denying equal aid to children in church-related schools, said Spellman, would deprive them of "freedom of mind and freedom of religion guaranteed by our country's Constitution." Should Congress do so, it would breed "thought control" by compelling a child "to attend a state school as a condition of sharing in education funds." Spellman's strong words were spoken at a windup meeting of his drive to raise $25 million for new Catholic high schools in New York-which he himself reported has been oversubscribed by $15 million...
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...they never had it so good. Two families out of three, said an official government handbook, have a television set and vacuum cleaner, one in three has a washing machine, one in eight a refrigerator. Half the population spend their holidays away from home, and half the younger generation attend the movies once a week at 50? a seat. One-quarter of the adult population either play in or watch a football (soccer) or cricket match every week. All this, plus the superior feeling that one has just for being English, on an average income of $2,100 a year...