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...less than his Harvard counterpart. Five courses throughout the year may require a total of 3000 pages or reading notes are not usually part of the study pattern; a student may appear to read a textbook on atomic physics as if it were a novel. As at Harvard, daily homework is infrequent, except in the physical sciences and commercial courses and term papers are not assigned to B.A. students. Minor exercises that are occasionally-rejuired tend to rehash material from the lectures or reading, with less emphasis on creative thought...

Author: By Marshall M. Bouton, | Title: Dilemma of Tradition, Change Faces South Indian University | 2/16/1965 | See Source »

...That's a point." I said. "I get paid all of $1350 a year teaching one class three times per week--though I do have to grade all their homework and hold office hours. I have a friend at M.I.T. who is paid $2500 plus tuition just for grading papers several times a semester, but everybody knows that M.I.T. is part of the military-industrial complex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "GEE WHIZ, MA'AM" | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

...least as classy as caviar. She is delightful to listen to when she explains with gestures the stunning miscarriage of justice by which she lost a beauty contest. And her party dance, an uninhibited display of body English atop a piano, should provide a semester or two of isometric homework for the eager starlets who used to emulate Marilyn Monroe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Homicidal Bash | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

After six months work, the committee submitted the report to Johnson in December. About 15 or 16 full days of private hearings were held. Price said that the rest of the work was done "as homework by individual committee members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Price Concludes Executive Study; Reports to LBJ | 1/21/1965 | See Source »

...muster. One professor finds the students "a shade above those I've had on the main campus." The dropout rate at Minuteman U. is 19% a year, compared with a 40% attrition rate among all Ohio State graduate students, even though the men must juggle the time for homework and classes with family demands and additional Air Force requirements such as technical training, military tests, and logging enough flying time to maintain their pilot status. The strain is heavy. "I really felt good when Dr. Hastings told me there was no such thing as a happy graduate student, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Minuteman U. | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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