Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Instead of looking forward to college, three fourths of (high school) students now look forward directly to work. Except for a small minority, the high school has therefore ceased to be a preparatory school in the old sense of the word. In so far as it is preparatory, it prepares not for college but for life...
...friend . . . of ours got into a great deal of trouble several years back when he decided to pass up an opportunity to go to Yale and instead entered a certain educational institution in the home of the bean...
...Yale report recognizes no twin fields of General and Special Education for college students; instead, it divides its instruction into Basic Studies, Distribution, and the Major, illustrating the qualities of compromise inherent in the plan. Despite the lack of unity of purpose, however, the Yale Committee has drawn up specific proposals which cover in many ways the same ground as do the plans of the Harvard group...
...Harvard Committee does not prescribe any areas within which the three remaining General Education courses must fall. Instead it says merely that the student must take three courses which have been approved by the Administrative Committee on General Education, with only one coming within the area of his field of concentration...
Junyer makes a parenthetical contention: that music concerts should be rid of visible musicians ("It is awful to look at the physical movements of musicians themselves"). Instead, he argues, listeners' visual attention should be diverted to scenery-especially adapted to different compositions, different composers...