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...some pioneer math programing at Manhattan's Collegiate School, one of the oldest U.S. boys' schools, and in one case 74 students completed in two weeks a highly abstract algebra course that used to take more than two months. A programed course in logic at Hamilton College cut class time by one-third. At Columbia University, one student wrote a perfect.final exam after doing one term's math homework in four hours and 20 minutes. In Roanoke, Va., last year, 34 eighth-graders finished a one-year algebra course in six months, working 50 minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Programed Learning | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

Outside grants to the University for Nieman Fellows have been made before, one of which is also for a specialist. The Louis Stark Fund has financed a one-year leave of absence for a labor reporter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Science Writer to Receive Nieman | 3/13/1961 | See Source »

...Department is now seeking two visiting professors with one-year appointments to replace John Kenneth Galbraith and Carl Kaysen, who will leave for positions in the Kennedy Administration and all presumably be away for more than a year. Another senior member of the Department, David E. Bell, has already been armed Budget Director by President Kennedy...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: Smithies Calls Turnover In Economics 'Normal' | 3/2/1961 | See Source »

...Dirk Jan de Geer, 89, Netherlands ex-Premier, who after the German invasion of his country in 1940 briefly headed a London government-in-exile, later returned to The Netherlands, where he spent the rest of the war, came close enough to collaborating with the Nazis to draw a one-year suspended prison sentence for high treason in 1947; in Soest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1960 | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...they were guaranteed a draft exemption, 520 men would be willing to go. A one-year program would attract...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: 370 Indicate Willingness to Join Peace Corps Project in Nigeria | 12/9/1960 | See Source »

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