Word: larger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this feeling is a little hard to define, for it stems from a variety of sources. One of the advantages of the small school might seem to be the low faculty-student ratio (about one to eight this year). But this is not much different from many good, much larger schools, like Exeter, whose faculty-student ratio is almost the same as Middlesex...
Much depends, of course, on what advantage is made of this ratio. Unlike the facilities of most larger schools, most of the Middlesex faculty lives on or close to the school's campus. Each of the six "houses," which hold between 25 and 30 students, has quarters for a married master and at least one other instructor. The master, a senior faculty member, also acts as an advisor to the students in his dormitory. This task involves at least one conference every two weeks to discuss bi-weekly grade reports. But the master's job involves much more--seeing that...
...continue to operate pretty much as they please. If the front-page place of education in the past eight months has had any effect in relation to the prep school, it has been to diminish the public conception of the private school as a "nest of snobs." While the larger private school, or even the very good public school, may offer a better and more varied textbook education, neither can provide the individual attention and the chance for personal development which, ideally anyway, the small private school gives
...second improvement is the introduction of a wider variety of courses in the curriculum. More languages and advanced courses in science, mathematics, and English have been added or proposed. This type of improvement is limited, however, unless the Gary system is someday consolidated into fewer and larger schools...
...Alexander M. White '25, general chairman, prophesied in early March, set the Program behind by $5 million. However, Laurence O. Pratt '26, public relations director, noted yesterday that this drive has been unusual in regard to the amount of money so far collected, considering that no gift has been larger than $1 million...