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Secondly, these faculties are excellent teaching faculties, but while they include individual scholars of renown, they are not centers of research. The teaching and counseling duties constitute a severe handicap to research. At Swarthmore the teacher performs in both seminar and courses, and this can result in a schedule requiring the equivalent of five half courses and two one-term seminars in a year, or an average of up to thirteen teaching hours per week. With time allowed for preparation, this figure may almost preclude a research faculty...
...Paso Herald-Post (circ. 39,794) has long made its way as one of the chain's most profitable and independent-minded dailies. Under Editor Ed Pooley, a Tabasco-tempered maverick who has run the paper for 20 of his 59 years, the Herald has earned Texas-wide renown as an ardent defender of underdogs, whom Pooley, in deference to the border city's heavy Spanish-speaking population, invariably calls Juan Smiths. On their behalf, Pooley, one of U.S. journalism's last curmudgeons, wages daily war on the "s.o.b.'s." his all-embracing designation for city...
...relevancy of these programs to Harvard is decreased by another factor; the faculties at these institutions are excellent teaching faculties, but while they include individual scholars of renown, they are not centers of research. Even within this teaching framework, counseling duties, when added to the normal routine of life in a college community, constitute a severe drain on time and energy. At Swarthmore, the teacher performs in both seminar and course, and this can result in a schedule requiring the equivalent of five half courses and two one-term seminars in a year, or an average of up to thirteen...
...January occasion when "Engine" Charlie, fresh from another White House palaver over his remarks about the National Guard (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), declined to comment on the meeting, blurting: "This isn't my dunghill!" Quip-per Wilson finally explained last week exactly what he had meant, thus increased his renown for honesty, if not discretion. Said Charlie Wilson: "I meant that this particular place is not the place where I can talk best. I was not referring to the White House as such. There was an old Roman senator who said: 'A cock crows best on his own dunghill...
...University has long been famed for the great amount of individual freedom it grants. The University has also gained renown as a "melting pot" of nationalities. But when the two are combined, in the case of the foreign student, the result is often academic and social bewilderment...