Word: student
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prints in this show are for sale at a price that could fit any student's budget. Budding scholar-collectors would do well to look into this enjoyable exhibit...
...Russian universities, student living quarters are grouped by faculties, and the Azraels had a room in the section of the skyscraper assigned to the economics faculty. "At no time were we Americans treated as a delegation," Azrael says. "We lived relatively normal graduate student lives...
...practice of living together by faculties, Azrael notes, tends to make the Russian student more specialized and narrower than his American counterpart. At the same time, however, he found that Russian economics students knew more about their own literature than an American economics concentrator is likely to know about American literature. Natural science students seemed to have a widerranging interest in other fields and a more open-minded approach to controversial ideas than their colleagues in the social sciences...
...Soviet students, Azrael finds, are generally content. "Tourists who meet Russian youths on the street tend to get an exaggerated impression of discontent among the university students." He was struck by the large extent of "satisfaction, defined in a great variety of ways, among the Soviet student body...
...College is giving top priority in distribution of Fund money to strengthening endowment for student scholarships. Since the Fund began in 1955, 26 undergraduate, 6 graduate, and 12 memorial grants-in-aid scholarships have been established...