Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...calculate that the New College plan, by giving up the attempt at a complete course offering (impossible for a college in any case), will make it possible for a faculty of 50 to give a first-rate education to a thousand undergraduates. This ratio of one to twenty will go with efficient size of classes: relatively large groups in lectures and small groups in seminars...
Most criticized were the recommendations for an increased student-faculty ratio, with larger classes and fewer courses. "This is an academic version of inflation," charged Charles R. Cherington '35, profesor of Government...
Cherington admitted, however, that a higher student-faculty ratio would be inevitable if more students were admitted. "Clearly the Harvard money drive has failed," he maintained. "Our course now should be that of a still pond--no moving...
After a three year Ford Foundation study on the economics of higher education, Harris has recommended that the nation-wide student-faculty ratio be increased from the present 13:1 to 20:1. Such a rise would reduce the costs of higher education by $1.5 billion a year within 10 years, he said...
...Taking the long range view," Bender concluded, "a time can be imagined when there will be a 10:1 admissions ratio, and the status of the forced commuter might be higher than at present. But, unless this develops, I find it hard to imagine that a large group of people will want to live at home...