Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of such action, hooligan bravado collapsed. The gangs packed bedrolls, hid jackets to prevent identification, whined their way past police checkpoints, and rolled quietly into the darkness. With relief, Angels Camp watched them depart...
...Rate? As interest rates rose, Wall Street wondered whether the Federal Reserve System would raise its 3% rediscount rate, which for some time has been less than the short-term borrowing rate the Treasury pays. Ordinarily the Fed raises the rediscount rate to prevent "riding the rate," i.e., a member bank borrowing from the Fed to have more funds for lending at a higher rate. But member-bank borrowing last week averaged $888 million, up only $5,000,000 from the week before. Since there was no evidence that banks were riding the rate, best guess was that...
Dean Bundy admits that the junior faculty problem is critical, but not so critical as to prevent expansion. Harvard ought to be able to discourage faculty poaching by other colleges if it makes the major increases in faculty salaries projected by the Program for Harvard College. The Program has earmarked $16 million for salaries, to produce an expected raise of about 25 per cent...
Instead of being graded, these students are put through a heavy battery of general examinations, both written and oral, in the spring of their senior year. These examinations are prepared not by the Swarthmore faculty, but by outside examiners, who serve to prevent academic inbreeding. Students have high praise for this detail, for they feel that they are working with an instructor, not against him, because he neither writes nor reads their examinations...
...practical terms however, there is no chance of this within the foreseeable future. Budgetary considerations and old-fashioned conservatism would prevent any immediate universality for the plan. There is another great factor, a lingering belief that many of the students in the College actually learn more because of the grade stimulus than they would without...