Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...educational policy makers and the American public are willing to accept as "higher education" classes of 100 or more, in which the hallowed "two-way togetherness or communication" is nonexistent, then President Martin is correct in his experimentation. How much better would it be if those hypercritical educational associations cited in TIME were to get behind this project rather than spending their time throwing up roadblocks against what no doubt many of their members feel is a potential threat to pedagogic job security...
...approach the problem is to ask: how far can the undergraduate afford to pay for deconversion? Obviously, if each student gets his own study bedroom, he will have to pay for it, and this means higher rents. Former Dean Leighton feels that, when the Houses begin deconverting this Fall, the demand for the more expensive "uncrowded" suites will be limited. "When the student no longer casts his dollar vote for deconversion," he observes, "then I am for expansion...
...other hand, as colleges face the "war-baby boom," one often hears the argument that Harvard, as a leader in American higher education, has a "responsibility to expand." Some point out that, as long as Houses are relieved of overcrowding to a tolerable degree, it will be possible to add new Houses, one by one, and expand the student body in this manner...
...Taking the long range view," Bender concluded, "a time can be imagined when there will be a 10:1 admissions ratio, and the status of the forced commuter might be higher than at present. But, unless this develops, I find it hard to imagine that a large group of people will want to live at home...
...Maytag will show earnings for 1958 at least 25% higher than the $6,633,292 (or $3.78 a share) it netted...