Word: surveyers
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...will take a long time to increase the output of nuclear power, even if they succeed. Says one utility spokesman: "Even with licensing reform, new [plant] orders won't begin again until 1980 at the earliest." Meanwhile, public sentiment against nuclear power seems stronger than ever. A Harris survey of New York State residents released this month shows that, when asked whether they would be willing to have a nuclear plant sited in their area, more than half of those polled answered no. Only a quarter of the 1,000 respondents approved. And voters in California's Kern...
Fortunately, Harvard has developed a tradition of individualized instruction through freshman seminars, tutorials, course sections, and senior theses. These elements of the curriculum are all strongly supported by faculty, alumni, and students alike. But almost all agree that further progress needs to be made. For example, in a survey several years ago, students, faculty and alumni came to remarkably similar conclusions when they were asked to rank in order of importance more than 30 possible reforms of the College...
Although such a commitment would require heavy use of faculty resources, this hurdle should not be insurmountable. In a 1970 College survey, most members of the faculty indicated a preference for teaching undergraduate seminars and tutorials rather than lecture courses. Since graduate enrollments have declined, professors should have more time available to teach undergraduates in smaller settings. And in the largest departments, where faculty-student ratios seem too low to allow enough instruction of this type, we may simply have to enlarge the size of the faculty...
...Delaware's New Castle County, she estimates that each year at least 250,000 American husbands are severely thrashed by their wives. University of New Hampshire Sociologist Murray Straus projects an equally grim picture of this battle of the sexes. On the basis of his 1976 national survey of violence in 2,143 representative American families, he concludes that about 2 million husbands and about the same number of wives commit at least one serious attack a year on their mates. These range from kicks, bites or punches to murderous assaults with knives and other deadly weapons. Says University...
DIED. Henry Merritt Wriston, 88, president of Brown University (1937-55) and blue-ribbon Government panelist; in Manhattan. At Brown, Wriston established a reputation as an iconoclast, de-emphasizing survey courses and attracting top professors and freeing them of administrative tasks. Describing himself as "a perpetually dissatisfied Republican," Wriston defended academic freedom from assaults by the House Un-American Activities Committee as vigorously as he opposed the New Deal. In 1954 he headed John Foster Dulles' committee for the reorganization of the diplomatic service, and in 1960 he directed the President's Commission on National Goals, an ambitious...