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...hours a week. "This is one of the reasons we are behind the other colleges," he adds. "Columbia has 5 hours a week, Wesleyan has six, and Princeton has six." In the accelerated Cornell system, the elementary language student spends eight hours a week studying languages, three in a "drill section," three in the lab, and two in lecture. These courses, however, count for double credit...
Cornell's system here is one of the highlights of its Language department and one that Harvard may well copy. Every one of the drill sessions, which consist of ten students each, is taught by a native of the country whose language is being taught. These teachers are all graduate students who work off a percentage of their tuition by leading these small classes. These graduate students are even rotated from class to class so that the students will not learn to mimic one particular type of accent in the language they are studying...
...week on the process. Now Topp's Micro-Path division, headed by Thomas F. Johns, is out showing the machine to U.S. industry. North American Aviation wants four of the machines; Hughes Aircraft is interested in using the machine on a 20-ft. lathe to drill and rout its Falcon missile. There may be other uses beyond machine tools; Du Pont is investigating to see if the controls can be used to run chemical-mixing processes...
...making only the controls, subcontracting the work of making the machines to other companies. Some sell for as little as $8,500, range as high as $200,000. Larkins is constantly taking on new jobs. When the Portland (Me.) Copper & Tank Works needed a machine that would rapidly drill 160 evenly spaced holes in different parts, yet assure their exact alignment in the afterburner of a General Electric J-79 jet engine, the company called on Elox. They worked out a machine, an eight-headed monster that can quickly and automatically drill dozens of combinations of holes. Said Engineer Clifford...
Knowledge Is Power. In Memphis, First Grader Timothy Meadows, 6, proud of his reading ability after only two days at Kingsbury School, spied a sign on a red box labeled "Pull," pulled, sent 3,000 children streaming outside in an unrehearsed fire drill...