Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Half-Way Solution...
Hatfield points out that some advancement has been made in the reading of German; on two separate occasions, teaching fellows gained promotions on the basis of their ability in elementary courses rather than by seniority or by academic accomplishments. But this is only a half-way solution. The teacher in the lower level course will then work as hard as he can to get his promotion but the fact may also be that if he gets the promotion, he can get out of teaching the elementary course and enter a more challenging field. The problem then remains--how to keep...
Asked whether Soviet scientists select their own research problems, Doty remarked that "people as high as professor can choose their own work maybe half the time, depending on the director of their scientific institutes...
Mvusi has talked to many contemporary artists in his travels. Although his roots are in native Africa, he is against the "primitive art fad." Aside from a half dozen serious artists, he reports his own country's native artists are "mostly ignorant fellows blighted by curio seekers." Mvusi himself was the second Negro ever to have his work shown in South Africa's major national art exhibition...
According to an unofficial estimate by co-chairman Peter J. Solomon '60, PBH and the emergency fund for the Band are the leading specified charities. However, more than half of the gifts have not been tabbed for specific allocation...