Word: set
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College room rates will be set at a single price, instead of the present flexible scale, if the Administration adopts a proposal of the Masters. Under the plan, all students would pay equal room rents, similar to the system now used at Yale...
...between uniform prices for all rooms and a system of differentiation similar to the one which now exists in the House systyem. If the latter alternative is adopted, the problem immediately arises, how is such a differentiation to be made in a House which has no striking factors to set one room apart from another, except for the rather trivial ones such as view and proximity to the elevators that will eliminate the stair-climbing inconvenience which is a strong factor in present ratesetting...
...laws live in a hyper-modern house, sterile as an egg-bin, where the garden is gravel and a robot polishes the floor. They try to get Hulot a job with the firm, they try to set him up with a neighbor widow, they try to reform him; they fail, of course. He makes sausages out of plastic hose at the plant, devastates their garden party, and transports their son on his fuming motorbike. The characters, in their smug posturings and ridiculous appearance, are like cartoon characters, as the film itself is a plotless continuity of cartoon-like situations...
...correct answer, in code. If machine answer and student answer are congruent, the machine automatically proceeds to the next frame. If they do not agree, the student's answer is blanked out and he must answer again; the machine will not proceed until the right answer has been set down...
...program and the student, and that since the student is always active, manipulating the machine, he avoids the stupor of textbook-reading or lecture-drowze. Skinner points out that, "like a good tutor, the machine insists that a given point be thoroughly understood, either frame by frame or set, before the student moves on." And perhaps most importantly, the machine, like a good tutor, substantiates and corroborates right answers and quickly points out and corrects wrong ones--"using this immediate feedback not only to shape his behavior most efficiently but to maintain it in strength in a manner which...