Word: drain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decreased by another factor; the faculties at these institutions are excellent teaching faculties, but while they include individual scholars of renown, they are not centers of research. Even within this teaching framework, counseling duties, when added to the normal routine of life in a college community, constitute a severe drain on time and energy. At Swarthmore, the teacher performs in both seminar and course, and this can result in a schedule requiring the equivalent of five half courses and two one-term seminars in a year, or an average of up to thirteen hours teaching per week. With time allowed...
...very act of milking the comic side of Jewish family life, sadly waters it down. Schulman belongs, in fact, to the two-faucet school of playwriting: what's not comedy is sentiment. And at the end, anything knotty or disconcerting just goes down the drain: Pop may play fast and loose, but he loves his son; Uncle may rant and roar, but he eventually writes out a check. There are amusing enough moments; Garson Kanhvs staging is brisk, and Paul Douglas' father surprisingly believable. But as a new theater form-the problem farce-A Hole in the Head...
Striking a less sanguine note, the educator reminded the prospective teachers of such occupational hazards as a continual drain on their energy from dealing with many people, among them "fools" and mixed-up adolescents. He warned the audience at Leverett House of the financial sacrifices and of the foolishness of thinking of education as an "idealistic and sheltered profession...
When President Lowell retired in 1933, the number of tutors who had no chance of academic advancement had become groundswell. The individual tutorial program for everyone, moreover, was a serious drain on both the budget and the tutors' time. In 1936, tutorial became an optional activity for a department, with tutorial for all sophomores and for only those juniors and seniors of exceptional ability. By 1938, faculty discontent forced President Conant to appoint the "Committee of Eight" to investigate "some problems of personnel in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences." For the purpose of the individual tutorial system, the Committee...
...subs were the second pair of four ordered between 1952 and 1955 by Vice Admiral Roque Saldias, the Navy Minister. The reputed cost was $32 million, payable over five years, a heavy drain for a nation whose record navy budget is only $13 million, but no complaint was heard as long as Dictator Manuel Odria was in power. After President Manuel Prado took office last July, navy officers and newsmen began some critical digging. They reported that before ordering the subs, Admiral Saldias had turned down a U.S. offer of two World War II-type heavy cruisers at a bargain...