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...major proposals and several minor ones designed to counteract the trend toward mass education appear in the advising report. The proposal most directly aimed at improving personal faculty student contact is a group tutorial plan under which every student in the five largest academic departments could meet twice monthly for an "undergraduate seminar" with four other students and a faculty member in his field of concentration. This program would give the 75 percent of the students in these departments who are not now on tutorial an organized intellectual relationship with some specific faculty member. Such formal contact should then...
Originally established in 1947 by the Paul Report, the committees were intended to promote the class unity which had been disrupted by acceleration and scrambling during the war. Their other major functions were to counteract the House system, which divides classes into eight parts; to hold at least one social function during the academic year; and to supervise the Senior Class Album...
...Manhattan, NBC-after thinking it over for a year-scheduled a new network program, Watch the World (Sun. 3:30 p.m., NBC-TV), intended to counteract some of TV's blood-&-thunder children's shows. Dedicated to current events, United Nations, developments in the arts & sciences and other worthy projects, Watch the World has been heavily plugged by educators. Facing the impossibility of keeping small fry from watching TV, RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff said: "The important thing now is how to use the medium of television affirmatively for children...
...wandering leopard, hungry and rain-soaked after his three days of freedom, sneaked back to the city zoo one day last week and gobbled down 8 Ibs. of doped horsemeat set out to trap him. Groggy and submissive, he was clamped into a cage, given a heart stimulant to counteract the drugs, 15 hours later was dead. By then, however, he was a public hero: the city park board refused to sell his carcass for $10,000 to a Washington, D.C. furrier; instead, he will be regally mounted in the zoo. Quick as a fox, and resourceful as a beaver...
...want no part of the new Cult of Doom that I see rising all about us ... I would like, if I can, to help counteract the growing mood, among the people of this country, of hopelessness and futility and confusion which the Oracles of Annihilation have encouraged by their dismal words-however well-intentioned those words...