Word: draggings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What makes this problem additionally rocky is the much larger question of ridding colleges of the necessity to teach basically elementary courses. The ideal, of course, is that all such courses be taught in secondary schools, releasing college students from the drag on their college carrer and allowing the Faculty more discretion in designing the course requirements. (The Andover-Blackmere Report, soon to be unveiled, deals fully with this complication). Like most ideals, this is a long-range affair at best, since the only means of forcing these courses back into the high-schools is for all colleges to impose...
...argument that free entry of goods made by "cheap" foreign labor would drag down the American workingman's standard of living, the Board answered: "Foreign labor is not cheap! Productivity as well as wages determine the value of labor. The employees of Detroit and Michigan industries, as a result of heavy investments in equipment, tools and machinery, and improved techniques of production, are competitive with other labor groups throughout the world." Free trade, said the Board, is inevitable. And it is illogical to send American products abroad with loans, grants and outright gifts to buy the goods...
...with a three-lens camera (each lens aimed from a different angle). Then the film is projected, by three projectors, on a wide, concave screen; the sound is played over several loudspeakers placed around the theater. Result: an impression of full-dimension sight & sound. Cinerama's ability to drag the audience into the picture shows up best in the outdoor scenes that capitalize on vast panoramas, since the idea is to present the same wide-angle view on the screen that the human eye sees normally...
There's Hope. Leslie was loyal. She entertained her husband's dull friends, learned to take their new-rich gaucheries in stride, brought up two fine children. But she never stopped criticizing Texas, never let Texans drag her down to their level. At Giant's end, daughter Luz has rebelled against Texas' Juan-crowism, is sweet on a young fellow who is interested in scientific farming and doesn't give a hang about million-acre ranches. Son Jordan is married to a Mexican girl, aims to become a doctor and work among the poor...
...overcome this drag on four-year colleges, Conant again raises the standard of his favorite educational innovation, the two-year community college. Only students who have real goals in mind should take advantage of four-year programs, he feels. The undecided and those who might not otherwise have a chance for higher education would attend the two-year colleges, which would give a Bachelor in General Studies degree...