Word: objections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MERGER CURBS are making fast headway in Congress. The House has passed (and the Senate is expected to approve) a bill requiring large companies to give the Government advance notice of all proposed mergers involving combined assets of $10 million or more. If the Government does not object within 90 days, the merger can be completed, though still subject to possible court action later...
Although it must be granted that a Soviet teaching Russian history would be the object of some interest, he would, of course, present some problems in administration. He would have to be given at least as much academic freedom as an American professor would expect. This might mean that students would be subjected to unorthodox examinations or some other Slavic peculiarity. A Russian professor, however, as a guest would probably try to accomodate himself to the American system...
...Socrates himself." wrote Rouse in an introduction, "described his object as that of a midwife, to bring other men's thoughts to birth." Socrates never wrote, but after his death a brilliant pupil named Plato wrote down his master's oral comments and arguments. In Rouse's pages Socrates' strength of mind, his dedication to philosophical truth, are borne in on the modern reader with something of the power that impressed and disturbed the ancient Greeks...
...revision will be conducted as part of a study of communism in the United States now being made by Rossiter and several assistants. This study of Communism has been an object of special attention by the Fund of the Republic, which has already ear-marked enough funds to pay for it in its entity...
...this greater amount of material to which course instructors object. Papers are more difficult to grade than hour exams because of their length and because their higher thought content requires more careful deliberation from the grader. This, however, is not a valid argument against having more papers in courses. If the college considers papers to be a really valuable stimulus to education, it must hire more graduate students to perform the drudgery of grading. In this way, it will develop the ability to work out a problem thoroughly instead of the now prevalent hour exam spirit of gamesmanship...