Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...excellent case study of divergent views at work within the generally accepted consensus. The Democrats, in the first two years as the minority in Congress, and in the second two years as the majority party, advanced counterproposals or criticisms of each administration bill. These counterproposals ordinarily called for significantly higher levels of effort or assistance than the administration was willing to advocate. The result was a bargaining situation. But as is characteristic of most bargains, the give-and-take was on matters of degree, not principle...
Certainly, too, it seems desirable to educate our leaders better, and to make research an integral part of higher education. But the question must be raised, as Dr. Conant finally raises it on the last page, do the American people want to spend their money on sound education, and if the answer is, as it seems to be, largely negative, then what is needed is a program for selling education, not an argument proving that those who have a good education are better educated...
...this greater amount of material to which course instructors object. Papers are more difficult to grade than hour exams because of their length and because their higher thought content requires more careful deliberation from the grader. This, however, is not a valid argument against having more papers in courses. If the college considers papers to be a really valuable stimulus to education, it must hire more graduate students to perform the drudgery of grading. In this way, it will develop the ability to work out a problem thoroughly instead of the now prevalent hour exam spirit of gamesmanship...
...western world and the American people, however, have paid a far higher price than I have paid. I have been smeared as a fascist. The American people have fought and won a world war to make Communism the chief, if not the only, winner. I foresaw and predicted this in my book, The Dynamics of War and Revolution, written just after the beginning of World War II and published privately by me in early 1940 after Harpers had printed the book and then decided it was too hot for them to publish under their name...
...visual arts are an integral part of the humanities and as such must assume a role of prominence in the context of higher education," the committee said. "Perhaps at no moment in history since the invention of printing has man's communication with his fellow man been so largely taken over by visual media as today...