Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Government will get into the business-with precise method still undecided-of speeding up the training of young scientists (see below). ¶ The Administration will probably request $4 billion for foreign economic and military aid - $1 billion more than Congress approved last summer, ¶ A definite effort will be made to cut and defer nonessentials in the federal budget, e.g., rivers and harbors projects, and the President will put the responsibility for cutting pet congressional projects squarely on Congress. ¶ Pentagon Missile Adviser William M. Holaday will now have full power "to direct all activities in the Department...
...nonessential, nonmilitary federal programs. "Now, by whatever amount savings fail to equal the additional costs of security, our total expenditures will go up. Our people will rightly demand it. They will not sacrifice security to worship a balanced budget. . . Some savings may still be squeezed out through the wringer method. But the savings of the kind we need can come about only through cutting out or deferring entire categories of activities. This will be one of the hardest and most distasteful tasks that the coming session of Congress must face, and pressure groups will wail in anguish...
...best means are a wide expansion of "99" courses. More students--juniors and some sophomores--should be encouraged to enroll. Tutorial for credit, unless it is only a thesis course, succeeds not because of the grade but because of the material and the method of instruction...
...reason but expense why "99" courses should be limited to concentrators. Suppose a History student wants to work for a term on American novels and can convince the Department of English that he is able to pursue such a course of study. Why should he be barred? If this method of teaching produces the best sort of learning, then it should be used as widely as possible. Science concentrators, now wholly outside tutorial, might profit especially from a History 99 or a Fine Arts 99. Course reduction, now often unsupervised, can provide a means to learn an outside field...
...desire it. Efforts to improve it should not be made by diminishing the number of students it affects. If greater weight were given to tutorial in awarding Honors degrees, Honors candidates would become more interested in tutorial meetings. Also, increased funds should be appropriated toward this method of education: in the Program for Harvard College, for example, some of the large appropriation for athletic endowment could be transferred to the tutorial program. A large enough expenditure for tutorial would provide more tutors, but if individual tutorial were still not feasible, small groups might be implemented which would alternate weekly with...