Word: higher
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...explosion in the number of college students since World War II has created numerous difficulties for private higher education, the first president and current chancellor of Brandeis University said in a lecture last night...
Speaking at the Cambridge Forum, Abram L. Sachar said the problems facing higher education include the rising cost of running a university and resulting high tuitions, the growth in the numbers of disadvantaged students, the change in the moral climate of society, and the rapid growth in the volume of knowledge in the last 25 years...
...G.I.Bill of Rights was the greatest gift of gratitude by a nation to its young people," Sachar said. However, he added, it destroyed the intimacy of higher education by democraticizing...
...some of the classic laws of physics. The second law of thermodynamics holds that energy tends to dissipate and that organized systems drift into disorder. But many biological processes, including the ones in which simple acids combine to form complex molecules or in which cells join together to form higher organisms, seem to contradict this rule. Prigogine has provided a method for including biological systems within the framework of thermodynamics. Some 20 years ago he developed mathematical models of a class of systems he termed "dissipative structures," which could dissipate energy at the same time they were organizing themselves...
...scene to scene to keep the action moving. One-liners like "Confession is good for the soul but it's bad for sex" are supposed to pass for slick dialogue, and they do succeed in eliciting the nervous chuckles, but the script seems to have been written with no higher purpose in mind than to keep the audience reasonably titillated. By devoting his energies to giving the film as glossy a sheen as possible, Brooks never explores the broader implications of the Dunn character, such as thorough discussion of how prominently Dunn's religious background figures in the chemistry...