Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problems for him. To spank a tot who says, "I hate you," is to store up his anger that will augment future misbehavior. A skillful mother listens, says, "I know just how you feel," and the child's feeling that someone understands shrinks the anger to a size that he himself can subdue. Reassurance rather than reprimand is often the best medicine for defeat or failure...
...batch-processing are opposite methods of computer work. With the first, the users are "on-line," which means the computer functions precisely when it is asked to by the user; with the second, efficient use of the computer requires htat the user assemble problems of just the right size, and feed them in at just the right rate. For the student or Faculty member submitting a question downstairs at the Computer Center, a wait of two or three hours is usual...
...idea for a private development corporation was new itself, but the idea of involving the universities and industry in the community was an even more daring concept. Myerson wanted the corporation to be "small in size, but extraordinary in skill." Run by a president and secretary, it would depend on the universities for guidance on special projects...
...proposal would raise no financial problems for the University. Nobody is paid for advising Independent Studies so the only limit on the program's size is the willingness of Faculty members to budget time for it. A flood of applications might fill the program to the saturation point, but overpopularity would be preferable to its present obscurity...
...structure the two are very similar. But their impact would be very different. The Undergraduate Association is essentially RGA revamped. Proponents claim that its smaller size (35 representatives to RGA's 60) will make student government less unwieldy and therefore more effective. This is not necessarily true. RGA's greatest weakness was its inability to transmit student opinion to the administration, despite Mrs. Bunting's religious attendance at the often deadly boring meetings. It is hard to see in what mysterious ways a smaller student government could enliven these meetings; it is impossible to see how a difference in size...