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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these dilemmas center around the question of whether or not students should pay what they can afford to pay regardless of the fact that some other student may be getting the same quarters for half the price...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Masters Consider Plan Of Standardized Rents Present System Is Alternative | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

...Faculty approves the new program, midshipmen will take a half-course in psychology or social relations as preparation for their senior work in Naval Leadership Training, and will be allowed, to replace one full course in naval history with History 168 (Oceanic History and Affairs). The revisions presumably will apply to members of the present Freshman class...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: NROTC May Add, Replace Two Courses | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

Robert W. White '25, chairman of the Social Relations Department, stated last night that the full course in Human Relations is "best suited," but pointed out that the Navy curriculum calls for a half course. "It is quite possible that a new course may be offered if we can't find one that fits the requirements," he added...

Author: By Alan H. Grossman, | Title: NROTC May Add, Replace Two Courses | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

...either books, audiovisual aids, or lectures. In Nat Sci 114 last year, in which forty-eight of the machines' disks replaced the textbooks, the average time spent at the machines to complete the forty-eight disks (equivalent to nearly a whole semester's reading) was about fourteen and a half hours. Comprehension did not suffer. Eventually the text was read too, for comparative purposes. To the question, "In comparing work on the machine with studying the text, I felt that with the same time and effort," thirty-two per cent of the students said that they had learned "much more...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Psychological Laboratory's Answer To a Teacher Shortage: Machines | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

That the threat to the new nations is a real one should already be clear, though recent reports from Russia by Walter Lippmann and Adlai Stevenson delineate the immense extent of Communist appeal to the world's underdeveloped areas. To answer the Soviet challenge with half-way measures, such as the President has cited, or with threats on the order of Secretary Dulles' pronunciamento seems the height of folly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Neglected Neutrals | 11/28/1958 | See Source »

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