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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another facet of the new methods now being employed here is the use of the "machine system" (tape recorders). "We are starting this in one of our elementary French courses," Frohock notes, "but we are far behind such colleges as Wesleyan and Columbia. They have many of these essential practice...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Modern Language Teaching: Stagnation Since the War | 12/5/1958 | See Source »

In the present era of "merged" education in Cambridge, a Radcliffe publication must be exceptional indeed to survive. If the Annex is an unique--as many say it is--there should be a place for a unique publication. The editors of the latest experiment, Percussion, now in its fourth week...

Author: By Victoria Thompson, | Title: Sixteen Attempts and Fifteen Failures | 12/2/1958 | See Source »

If there is antimatter in the universe, says Dr. Schein, there may be anti-gravity too. Antiprotons should rise upward, instead of falling toward the earth. The great balloon experiment may find evidence of such offbeat behavior. The tracks may even show that the elementary particles (protons, neutrons, etc.) are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: At Air's Outer Edge | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

Since Morococha is not high enough for his purpose Dr. Velasquez put local volunteers into an altitude chamber, exhausted the air until the pressure equaled that at 30,000 ft., then had them take off their oxygen masks. Whereas virtually all unacclimated lowlanders lose consciousness in less than three minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Way Station to Space | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

"Living out" was a nice, or least an "educational experiment" while it lasted, but the Committee on the Houses and the Administrative Board have decided to return to the earlier policy of compulsory senior residence.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nuns Fret Not | 11/20/1958 | See Source »

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