Word: higher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major educational journals have rated MIT's graduate economics instruction higher than Harvard's in "effectiveness of program." A recently-released report conducted in 1970 by the American Council of Education found Harvard equal in faculty quality to comparable universities, but second to MIT in the quality of education it offers...
What makes the difference between Harvard and MIT--what gives MIT a higher rating than Harvard--is, in Brown's opinion, the amount of attention paid to students by the faculty. "We give more attention to our students," said Brown. "Our emphasis is on teaching, rather than research--unlike Harvard...
...voice began trailing off, and then he rallied. "You know, it's not as though something like this rolls along every day. I realize that Sammy Davis Jr., Shecky Greene, and David Berkowitz were all higher than me on the list, but here I am and there they are...These college kids, ya know, they aren't so bad after all, what with your hippies and all, with the flowers and the hair and the Watusi. My parents told me they wanted me to go into plastics so they wrapped me up in a Glad...
Some of the undergraduates' dissatisfactions may be of their own making, according to David Riesman'31, Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, whose studies of American higher education are basic works in the field. "There is something about Harvard which is idiosyncratic--its enormous allure brings many students here. I see many of them before they come, because they are the children of parents I know, or I'm supposed to know about higher education, and I say to them, given what you want out of college, and the fact that you're going on to med school...
...would be unhappy to get a higher salary than my fellow undergraduate teaching fellows, since I'm not doing anything more than they are," Karen Hsiao, one of the course's graduate teaching fellows, said yesterday...