Word: performance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...superficial that they cannot, just this year, go to Las Vegas instead of Monte Carlo, or New Orleans instead of Paris, or Colorado instead of Switzerland, or California and Florida rather than Cairo? They will find they can do it for half the price, without insults or shakedowns, and perform a real service to this country...
Technical graduates perform well in their jobs, particularly when their training coincides with the needs of industries in the locality of the college. But Medsker contends that too many junior colleges tend to belittle their middle-track duty of providing a general education for the nontransfer, nontechnical student. Counseling is also often inept. The failure to give this type of student a meaningful broad education is a serious fault, since two-thirds of all students entering junior college profess an intention to continue to a senior college-but only one-third actually...
Teachers Who Teach. The strain is so great that Medsker foresees a major decision within five years on whether the junior colleges will continue to perform both academic and vocational functions. He argues strongly for continuing the present system because a combined institution is more economical and avoids a "scarring" experience for the student who otherwise might flunk out of a four-year college, then enter a technical school. Flushed with their liberal arts success, some of the nation's junior colleges are already converting to regular four-year institutions -a trend that most educators earnestly deplore, since...
Every college has to have "its" sport. And at Yale that sport is swimming. On Saturday afternoons throughout the winter, Yale's Payne Whitney Gymansium takes on the air of a massive temple into which the faithful file past long corridors of swimming trophies to watch the water animals perform...
...about white devils; few asked about his program of political action. Most wanted to know about the doctrine of self-defense. Still others asked why he said, "chickens come home to roost" in reference to President Kennedy's assassination. He was a "dancing bear." The audience wanted him to perform--and the code forced him to duel...