Word: expander
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...content and structure of all Annamalai courses are determined by departmental committees aided by outside specialists. The committees make their decisions in keeping with the expected public examination questions. Therefore, teachers do not usually expand or experiment with course material. If they do, students are likely to ignore the additional or novel material, since they are aware that they will not be tester in it. Except in the physical sciences, where 30% of the grade is determined by class work, the student's grade on the public exam in his grade for the course...
Wald's motion would amend an alternative to the Doty Report proposed last Thursday by 22 Faculty members, including Wald. Under the amendment, students could take any combination of departmenal and Gen courses. The Committee on General Education would expand its present offerings by providing several two-year sciences in the Natural Sciences...
Tensions had been rising all week, set off in part by the President's hasty dispatch of his top White House foreign relations advisor, McGeorge Bundy, to Saigon. Bundy's trip inevitably stirred speculation that the U.S. might be planning to expand the Vietnamese war, or, since the Bundy mission coincided with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin's visit to Hanoi (see THE WORLD), that the U.S. and the Communists were entering into negotiations. The President sharply and convincingly knocked down that idea-both with words and, at week's end, action...
...Appropriate & Fitting." At home President Johnson was under strong pressure either to expand the U.S. effort in Viet Nam or to think about getting out, as suggested last week by Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore. Said Gore: "Short of a major conflict, a negotiated settlement is the best we can hope for-and this only through the active collaboration of the Soviet Union...
...Challenge," a PBH tutoring program for bright seventh and eighth graders from lower socio-economic areas of Cambridge, will expand nearly four-fold this semester, Elisha M. Gray '66, director of the project, announced yesterday...