Word: granting
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Unlike most graduate schools in the liberal arts, the Bologna Center is not primarily designed to turn out scholars, will grant no degrees-although credits earned there may be applied to advanced degrees from Johns Hopkins. Of four U.S. students already enrolled at the center, only blonde, 22-year-old Mary Lincoln of Paoli, Pa., a French foreign policy specialist, has any intention of becoming a teacher, and even she is seriously considering Government service. Says Director Haines: "What we are after is bright young people with promise of leadership." First students to fill the bill completely: two Austrians...
From frugal beginnings in 1855 as a state-chartered farmers' college, Pennsylvania State University has grown into the 6th largest (15,400 students) of the nation's 69 land-grant* colleges-with research achievements to match, e.g., in diesel engineering, low temperature studies, corn hybridization. Last week, with scarcely a backward look or a sigh of nostalgia, Penn State briskly marked its 100th year of growth with a day-long celebration...
Last spring, after getting a $15,000 grant from Chicago's Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, Director Spengler and Associate Professor (of English) Stern asked the faculty to recommend adults for the experiment. Of the 130 applicants, Spengler and Stern chose 32. Each student was supposed to cover the regular undergraduate work (128 credits), but before he started he was allowed to take examinations on any subject he thought he could pass without taking the regular course. The adults could go to class or not as they chose; they got extra reading assignments, had special...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday voted unanimously to offer graduate study in bio-chemistry, and a committee to grant M.A. and Ph.D. degrees and arrange instruction in the field was created...
...foundry wound up in the hands of trustees, and kept going, after a fashion, on a $25,000 government grant...