Word: effective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laboratory work in the Natural Sciences courses would help. The "red book" called for it as a way to illustrate the precision and experiment which characterize the approach of many sciences. Most Gen Ed courses now try for this effect through demonstration sections and problem sets, notably inadequate tools. If the lab space could be made available laboratory work might improve all the lower-level Nat Sci courses which to not require it. This could happen only if the method were carefully though out. The endless lab writeup of the Physics 1 variety should be avoided, but a good...
...course in the biological sciences form one example. It would be hard to tell whether this influence has yet spread to other departments, but it certainly affects the many teaching fellows the Committee employs, the men who will climb the academic ladder to tenure in the departments eventually. This effect can certainly be expected to increase...
Seeking to determine the effect of education on the values held by students, Jacob concludes that college has no fundamental impact on the students' basic values, and that what peripheral effect it has is not to be explained by the influence of the curriculum, of the instructor, or of the teaching methods used...
...social outlook, but he feels that these are changes on the surface of personality, and do not involve the fundamental values which shape a student's life pattern. "They certainly do not support the widely held assumption that a college education has an important, general, almost certain 'liberalizing' effect," he claims...
...return of normal peacetime competition to the industry after 18 years of newsprint rationing. Until last December, when the government finally allowed newspapers to run as many pages as they wished, the biggest and strongest dailies could not give advertisers all the space they needed, thus, in effect, subsidizing smaller and weaker papers that had space to spare. With the end of newsprint restrictions. British admen, like their Madison Avenue cousins, began to concentrate their ads in dailies that give them either mass circulation, such as the Daily Express (circ. 4,042,334), or class circulation, e.g., the Daily Telegraph...