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Harris' plan is simply this: each student who needs aid would borrow $1,000, one half of which would go towards his current needs, the other five hundred towards tuition. The financiers would be either private business, such as insurance companies, or hopefully the federal government. If this program were taken up and handled properly, Harris says that "private institutions of higher learning could increase their tuition by $400 to $600 in five years." Such a program also would make doubling of current teacher salaries possible...
...continual interchange between the program and the student, and that since the student is always active, manipulating the machine, he avoids the stupor of textbook-reading or lecture-drowze. Skinner points out that, "like a good tutor, the machine insists that a given point be thoroughly understood, either frame by frame or set, before the student moves on." And perhaps most importantly, the machine, like a good tutor, substantiates and corroborates right answers and quickly points out and corrects wrong ones--"using this immediate feedback not only to shape his behavior most efficiently but to maintain it in strength...
...greatest virtue of the machines is that, by all the admittedly scanty information on their effectiveness, they seem to put knowledge into a student's head and to make the knowledge stick with much less trouble and time than either books, audiovisual aids, or lectures. In Nat Sci 114 last year, in which forty-eight of the machines' disks replaced the textbooks, the average time spent at the machines to complete the forty-eight disks (equivalent to nearly a whole semester's reading) was about fourteen and a half hours. Comprehension did not suffer. Eventually the text was read...
McCurdy is also proud of the team's effort against Cornell. Both squads had not yet reached top form for the season, and the meet could have gone either way. Harvard won this meet and all the others except for Yale...
Pipes said that the students, who originally were to arrive Oct. 10, will reach Cambridge either late this evening or early tomorrow. The students were apparently delayed due to "some trouble on their side obtaining visas," Pipes noted...