Word: different
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professors' ideas of the purpose of course reduction differ as much as their requirements for getting it. In no field need specific achievement be demonstrated afterward, and, as Hanson says, "the departments should be free to grant it whenever they feel working at a three-course rate would be more advantageous to the student than working under the normal load...
However much they may differ, such programs indicate serious doubts about U.S. higher education. As practiced now. says Assistant Dean John C. Esty Jr. of Amherst, "most education is a hoax. You just don't get it by placing students in juxtaposition to books and professors for four years." The hoped-for symbol of education at its best, says Dean of the College Robert Streeter of the University of Chicago, is "the student alone with his books...
...Tories cheered; Laborites replied that anyone who thinks that Gaitskell and Mollet differ from Stalin and Khrushchev only in degree is obviously suffering from the strain of overwork. In two by-elections last week, the voters gave their own reading of the political quarreling. The Tories managed to hold two seats in Newcastle-on-Tyne and Becken-ham, but in both cases suffered a loss of votes to the Socialists. In Newcastle-on-Tyne the Tory percentage dropped by 3½%, in Beckenham by 6%. In all, the Tories have suffered losses or reduced percentages in every by-election since...
...pointed out that its Drives Committee is already responsible for two blood drives and two book and clothing drives during the year. "It is inefficient to have a second Drives Committee established separately for collections which do not differ in their general method and scope of operation," it added...
Whether or not the Houses were once more vital centers because of fewer residents and a higher proportion of tutors, is a question on which honest men differ. Certainly the Houses offer some benefits today which were absent in the 1930's. But the critical point is that the Houses are not now what President Lowell intended them to be: "the way the benefits of the small college are combined with the rich offerings of a great university...