Word: pace
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usually, at this point, the University rallies to the defense of its scholarship and loan programs, pointing out that, generally speaking, scholarships have kept pace with the tuition and board increases. Accepting this, it still means that two-thirds of the class of '59, those without scholarship benefit, have had to bear total cost increases of approximately $650 in the last three years...
...headmaster agreed that the academic pace should be stepped up, but felt that "Conant inferred that parents should see that assigned homework is done, not that teachers should assign more...
Conant's report, based on visits to 55 schools in the nation, called for more distribution and better choice of courses, recommended a stiffer academic pace in schools, and defined the ideal size of a "comprehensive school" as one with 500 to 600 students...
...innocence was still in the eye of the 86th Congress, the fires of hope in its breast. New "approaches" hung high like pie in the sky, and Lyndon Johnson was gone clean out of this world. But the U.S. will probably keep on at a straight, steady pace -in large part because of the five powerful men who love the U.S. House of Representatives and, loving it, live...
...pace of U.S. business picks up, so does the demand for money. Last week bankers indicated they expect a rise soon in the discount rate, now 2½%, as well as a corresponding hike in the prime rates. Said Hanover Bank's President R. E. McNeill Jr.: "I would not be surprised to see an increase in the discount rate. There is a high level of business, inventories are down, money is fairly tight, and banks are well invested." With higher rates ahead, U.S. bonds had another sinking spell last week, reached the lowest level in years; many Treasury...