Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budgetary priorities, and in this inconspicuous conflict the professor of Statistical Mathematics has some strong cards: He can show that computers are widely used for thesis now--in Soc Rel, Economics, Statistics, Physics, and Chemistry--and the number of projects requiring computers goes up each year. Amazingly, 22 per cent of Harvard freshmen now enter the University with some kind of skill in using computers, and Mosteller argues "the skill dies very quickly if we don't supply them with computers, and right...
...measure their success in the reduction in need for their services from the same clients. However, I didn't reckon with the bureaucratic mentality. Dr.Blaine and some administrators are "alarmed" at the decline of 6.4% in their trade. Is the really successful health service to aim at a 20% per year growth rate to keep up the GNP? Perhaps the health service psychiatrists and their administrative cohorts could use some of that increased leisure to think about the charges that the students are making against the adult society which they and the University represent. Howard M. Feinstein...
...seven the number of coeds presently heading an M.I.T. activity. Miss Kivisild attributed the increase, three over last year, to the increased number of coeds (200 out of 3700) that now attend M.I.T. Until 1964 when the quota was raised to 50, there were less than 30 admitted per class. Next year approximately 100 women will be admitted to the freshman class...
...everyone on its side--Governor Volpe, Mayor White, the MBTA, and almost all the legislators in the Great and General Court. Volpe is "committed" to the Library, he says, as the Commonwealth's memorial to the late President. Two years ago, the legislature voted to pay over 80 per cent of the cost of the Bennett St. land as its gift to the Library...
Tutors are often too minimally committed, Profit said. They work on a one-to-one basis, usually for only one hour per week, with the children of families who cannot afford to pay a tutor...