Word: present
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last February the Committee on Educational Policy recommended the present tutorial system, which strengthened Honors tutorial, but left the fate of non-Honors in doubt. "This new program has been in operation for less than three months," Perkins noted. "We want to study its effects carefully, before jumping into an official non-Honors program...
While we cannot afford to be smug about the present situation, we do not need to be apologetic either. We are continuing to attempt improvements within the limits of our resources and energy. If this be stagnation, Heaven save us from activity. Henry Hatfield, Chairman, Germanic Languages and Literatures...
...future "where people are even more different from one another than they are now," Riesman concluded, "national character may become an even more tenuous concept than at present...
...Honors students want a tutorial program, Leighton said, "and I have a strong suspicion that many are happy under present condition." He stated, however, that a voluntary, flexible program would provide important benefits...
...will be seeing Cuba more and more in the news," continued Johanson. He described the present military stalement between the outnumbered rebel forces of Fidel Castro and the troops of the present Batista regime. But conservatives are beginning to support the "radical" Castro, he commented, adding that the Batista leadership has been weakened by purges...