Word: extents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to know and perhaps irrelevant to consider the extent to which the wide gap between the economic needs of Vietnam and its programs in the universities is due to the nation's preoccupaiton with war, the shortage of resources, the relative newness of its institutions, or to the academic customs that have been inherited by the country. Whatever its root causes, all Faculties except Medicine, Dentistry and Pedagogy have graduated less than five per cent of their total enrollment. The survey team interprets this as an indication of a waste of manpower, traceable in part to present university policies...
...custom. There are few resources for research or for teacher improvement and few exceptions to the dominant teaching method of lectures which become student's notes and the subjects of annual examinations. As a result there is little breadth to teaching styles and the process, to a great extent, has become predictable, uniform, and for the student unexciting. Accomplishment, for the student, is almost totally in terms of passing examinations; there exist too few opportunities to analyze or compare ideas, to discover meaning for oneself, or to create anew, all of which are requirements of maturing scholarship...
...Manhattan, Broadway and Seventh Avenue run side by side and at one point intermingle. So do the ideals of their denizens, to the extent that Seventh Avenue, capital of the garment industry, is almost as much show biz as Broadway. Thus this week Garment Manufacturer Richard Schwartz, the young (28) president of Jonathan Logan Inc., flies west for road-show tryouts of his new knit line. Schwartz will see what sells best among buyers in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas and Chicago, get his stitchers busy for what he hopes will be a long run in his New York showrooms...
...much will he depend on the students? The extent of a resident's demands is a crucial factor in determining his acceptance. Too little, and the project's reserves are wasted. Too much, and the students are drained...
...fact that so many of the inequitable tax laws have been distorted for years without Congressional action is not an encouraging sign for reform now. It demonstrates the extent to which vested interests and traditional forces exert control over the nation's lawmakers. In some minor area, however, reforms are making progress. The President's proposal to change the method of taxing the elderly has been submitted as part of the Social Security amendments. It does not alter the revenue cost of the program, but merely redirects the relief in a uniform manner towards those who need it most...