Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early 1930's, he served as the director of a committee appointed by the National Academy of Sciences to study the role of oceanographic research. His report led to the founding of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape...
...Princeton there could be a new, complicating factor -- women. Goheen has expressed interest in getting a girls' college to associate with the University for a long time, and a Faculty report last year recommended coeducation as a solution to Princeton's social problems. Feelers are out. Sarah Lawrence turned down a bid to hook up with Nassau Hall last year, but Goheen is still trying...
...Norr or Riesman, then one of the three Faculty HPC members. They argued that it was little more than a dressed up form of auditing and would put psychological pressure on students to increase their course load to five. Norr toyed with the idea of filing a minority report to the CEP. But the HPC traditionally hammers out its differences in closed meetings and then presents a united front when it arrives at a recommendation. So Norr decided to give no hint of the HPC's internal dissension...
Fatigue Factor. With the computer doing the juggling, all the different-length classes a school could not handle in the past can now be fitted neatly into place. Taking maximum advantage of available time, 54 high schools as far apart as Las Vegas, Miami and Montclair, N.J., all report similar trends in their curriculums. Foreign language instruction is being doled out in shorter instruction periods to allow for the fatigue factor of intense learning. Courses in the humanities and social sciences are being divided into large lecture groups early in the week, then broken up into small units for study...
...page computer compilation of the applicants to a Harvard College class, there are a dozen numbers listed under each applicant's name. One of these is the "personal" rating--a number from one to six based on an evaluation of the essay the student writes, the report of his alumni interviewer, the report of his staff interviewer if he visited Harvard, and the reports of his principal and teachers...