Word: extent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...school board is composed of representative figures in education, industry, finance, and domesticity who argue disputes at an intellectual level, and are interested solely in the welfare of the school system. They are possessed of an implicit trust in the professional staffs of the schools, and to a great extent rely on them for suggestions for improving the curriculum. Detailed proposals made to the board by a member of a faculty have been rejected only because of financial limitations, when the School Committee would greet the proposal with a wistful...
...greatest incentives for educators has always been the opportunity to shape the world through its future leaders and citizens. But education also carries with it a responsibility to prepare a child to live in and accept, to some extent, the world as he finds it. The secondary boarding school is a potential utopia as well as a vital part of our formal educational system. These two aspects are at times opposed to one another...
...gauge the depth of feelings involved. This was as emotional an issue as has hit Harvard in '58's stay, and it seemed that the President seriously misjudged the depth of feeling on this explosive issue, both among Faculty and students. The issue that people were thinking about--the extent of the University's interest in and commitment to religion--was never really brought into the open...
...Freshman Dean's Office, Hoehler said, "plan to use some of the categories employed by the roommate study in our coding for the matching of roommates." However, he added, "to what extent they will be used still has to be worked out." He stated that the aims of the study can "eventually" be included in the selection process and perhaps be used in the roommate assignments for the Class...
...effect of the changing nature of the economy is that a much larger drop in employment must occur -and remain for longer periods-than anyone before thought necessary to force down prices to any appreciable extent. Johns Hopkins' Joseph Aschheim estimates that unemployment must continue at between 5% and 10% for an extended period to attain price stability, thinks that it is closer to 5% than to 10%. Other economists set unemployment levels at 8% or more before prices will stabilize, or drop...