Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year's series of career talks represents a significant departure from the programs of previous years. Thomas J. Crooks, director of Student Placement, decided that individual talks would stimulate more interest in the careers program than the panel discussions which had been used in the past...
...should start by questioning the dogma one often hears that all the youth, irrespective of academic ability and interest, should complete grade twelve," Conant suggested. "Above all, the relation of education to employment of youth 16 and over must constantly be kept in mind...
Under the Program, established by the National Defense Education Act of 1958, colleges will be able to institute substantial student loan funds with liberal repayment terms and low interest rates. Authorized appropriations for the loans began this year with $47.5 million and will reach a high of $90 million...
First, though, Monro continued, the idea that "students just do not want loans" must be dispelled. He cited figures indicating that "it is within the power of any college to develop an active student interest in loans." As to the question of whether it is "moral" to encourage students to borrow in order to pay their college bills, Monro noted that people seem to have little reservation about taking on other large debts...
Such keen interest in current issues indicates the academic community is anxious to discourage the widely held notion that professors are anemic cowards who cling to the cloistered life because they fear the road where men are wont to tread. Indeed, the success of academic penetration into the social, political and literary life of the country shows how well the academy has destroyed this myth...