Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether or not the "public image" bears changing, it is certainly true that the role of the prospective science student needs study. Nearly half of recent freshman classes have indicated a desire to concentrate in the sciences, but a considerably smaller percentage actually does. Any number of factors might contribute to the drop-off--a sudden discovery of the liberal arts, a discouraging decline in grades, or possibly the deglamorization of the role of scientist in a freshman's mind (just as a horde of students who list "writer" as an occupational preference end up lawyers and teachers...
...dramatic three and one-half year seminar for gifted students, beginning in the Freshman year, was yesterday proposed by Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology and member of the CEP. Students in the program would do research under a Faculty member's guidance, and receive course reduction...
...point out that by far the majority of scholarship applicants at Harvard and equivalent colleges are students who will go to college somewhere else if they are denied aid. "I would be reasonably certain," King writes, "that at no College Scholarship Service college do as many as half the scholarship winners come from the neediest half of our nation's population. I would even wager that at no CSS college do as many as half of the dollars spent for scholarships go to students from the neediest half of our population." And this despite the financial aid revolution of determining...
Countering the Socialists' declaration that almost half of the people living in the U.S. have incomes below the maintenance level calculated by the Federal government, Leland said, "Some people are worth more than others; I personally do not feel that I could live on the scale set up by the government...
Some observers said that Castro had changed his plans because he feared that half of the Cuban government might be lost in a plane crash. His traveling party has now grown from 35 to 65, with most of the additions being Cuban officials...