Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Interference. In Long Beach, Calif., the Rev. Ralph M. Grove called in engineers to help his hard-of-hearing parishioners : the church's newly installed earphones were picking up nothing but local police calls...
Although economists are telling us today to invest abroad to help world recovery, the University investors apparently feel that no foreign country, except Canada, is safe enough for their money. The President and Fellows do have ever $2,000,000 in Canadian bonds...
According to the dean's office, the purpose of a Princeton education is to "help the individual student discover and develop his inherent powers, and, in the atmosphere of a residential college, to learn how to use them most effectively in cooperation with others...
...faculty leader of a "precept" meeting never quizzes, never lectures, and never takes attendance. His role is simply to ask leading questions and keep the discussion on the line, for preceptorial aims, "to clear up lectures and help students form their own opinions by informal discussion...
...number of steps towards casing the country's educational crisis" were posed by Professor Harris in last Sunday's New York Time Magazine. Harris, a backer of Federal aid to education, wants government and state help in the form of scholarships, fellowships, and capital outlays, and he doesn't fear any resulting threats to academic freedom. "British experience shows us that aid is possible without control of college educational policies," he explains...