Word: researched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...various plans for independent study, and the Faculty's powerful Committee on Educational Policy realized that this was probably the way to stimulate students to their highest capacities. This committee took an unusual amount of care in finding out what undergraduates really wanted in an educational program, and their research was exhausting. But finally, last February, they approved plans for release...
...virtually all from the March of Dimes), the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis announced last week a change of name and a raising of its sights against far commoner ills than polio. Henceforth to be called simply the National Foundation, the aggressive organization that spent $34 million on the research that produced (among other gains) the Salk vaccine * will turn its attention to two other cripplers: the rheumatic diseases and defects present in children at birth...
...attack on rheumatic diseases. Through last spring, committees of the two foundations met to hammer out terms, but could not agree. Main reasons: the A. & R. F. allows its local chapters wide autonomy, lets them raise funds independently or through United Fund drives, also lets them allocate funds for research in neighborhood medical centers. N.F.I.P. forbids its chapters to join in any concerted fund drive, and it refused to guarantee that local commitments would be allowed to run their course. When the A. & R. F. asked the N.F.I.P. to stay out of its bailiwick for at least a year, N.F.I.P...
Secondly, he called for "some bold, basic research" to determine how superior teaching can be extended to an increased number of qualified students. Next, he said, the U.S. must re-examine its aims and methods, noting that the present process of analysis and dissection is "not creative," but merely "an excellent method of producing cultural and scientific caretakers...
...open-pocketed optimism? For a while last winter and early spring, it appeared that the recession indeed had, as autos, appliances and many other consumer hard goods turned down. Last week, in a report that was as heartening as it was authoritative, the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, often called upon to test consumer attitudes for the Federal Reserve Board, reported that beneath the consumer's somewhat hesitant exterior still beats a buying heart of gold...