Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Admissions Board will meet this week to decide how many students to accept, and what standard of admissions to use. It is believed that to ensure the 950 number, the Board may accept a number very close to that, and then, perhaps, establish a waiting list to fill unexpected vacancies...
Skinner answers the standard objections to mechanized education. First, far from treating the child "as a mere animal," the machines would be resigned to relieve the teacher of routine, but necessary, drill. The teacher would not be replaced, but "may begin to function, not in lieu of a cheap machine, but through intellectual, cultural, and emotional contacts of that distinctive sort which testifiy to his status as a human being...
...Waldo B. Jones, professor of Air Science, left yesterday for the Air University in Alabama to consult ROTC officials about changes in the standard Air Science curriculum here. One topic for discussion is adoption of a modified "Harvard Plan," now used by the Army ROTC unit. Air Force refusal to accept such a plan is believed to have been one reason for Administration hesitation in accepting the unit...
MONOPOLY SUIT has been filed against American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp. Justice Department charges that American-Standard (40% of the iron bathtubs, 38% of the sinks) "substantially" reduced competition by buying Mullins Manufacturing Corp. (18% of the sinks). Suit demands that American-Standard divest itself of Mullins stock and assets...
...University of Wisconsin gave out the week's oddest statistic on the changing physique of the American male student. In 1926 the university's dormitories for men had only standard 6½-ft. beds. Today, because of student demand, 96 out of 1,400 beds are seven-footers. If things go on as they are, added Wisconsin, future rooms will just have to be made bigger to accommodate the bigger beds. ¶ For those worried about the nation's much publicized classroom shortage, the American School and University had some cheering news: last year the U.S. spent...