Word: correctible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Special Committee on Education in its presentation of "The Students' View" yesterday gave the College enough problems to worry over for months to come. To correct some of the educational deficiencies pointed out by the Poskanzer Committee will take ingenuity, brains, talk, and sweat...
First, improvement of the teaching effectiveness of lecturers, advisors, and section men. The report says that the University-College balance is partially at fault, the faculty members have to devote too much time to their specialty and not enough to the undergraduates. If this is correct, perhaps the Administration could insist that all Faculty members devote more of their working hours to the College, as GE instructors already do. Perhaps also the Administration should consider a man's ability to teach as well as to publish when it makes promotions and appointments. And if Faculty members would read the Poskanzer...
With dry Yankee humor he estimated what would have happened if the alarmists' theories on population growth were correct: "I computed last night that if Adam and Eve started this game about 4000 B.C. and had been reasonably fertile, if we had had a 10% increase per generation, we would now have-unless my slide rule slipped-a population as densely packed as this auditorium, leaving out the aisles. It would cover the entire earth, deserts and oceans 15 layers deep. Those who would be allocated the desert would be very much distressed, those allocated to the oceans would...
This estimate smells of blackmail-but it also bears the bitter flavor of unpleasant truth. The West has a little time to decide whether Schmid's estimate is correct. But it does not have very long...
Specifically, what is bothering me is the incomprehensible way in which Mr. August Limber '50 is able to correct an error on page four in the Spring Golf Schedule in today's paper, on THE SAME DATE that the error appears in print. Can you explain this enigma for me? Edward F. Burke...