Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...problem is more than a numerical one. The intermittent watchfulness of the Faculty has not brought forth a sensible system, and a standing committee might profitably survey the area. But if a committee were created, it would probably include many members of the language departments who now must bear the responsibility for the low quality of instruction given in so many modern languages. This instruction helps make the language requirement worthless...
...study is based on a selective survey of programs of instruction in the social sciences. It includes on-the-spot observations at some thirty institutions, but is mainly an analysis of the data accumulated in important previous studies...
Regarding the curriculum, he feels that what one studies does not determine his values. Drawing chiefly on the data collected by the Cornell Values Survey, Jacob notes that "a breakdown of its results according to the field of study in which each student was concentrating or planning to concentrate, shows that the patterns of value are almost identical among students in the different fields--within each university and across the sample as a whole...
...Harvard faculty will admit in survey after survey that it is less burdened at Harvard than at any other University. Although the faculty is keenly aware that it has a duty to teach and although many have a desire to teach, the pressure towards scholarship mingled with the feeling that "true scholarship admits no distractions" hinders teaching as opposed to scholarship...
...Department-store sales for the week ended May 25 slipped 1% behind the corresponding week in 1956. Yet according to the Federal Reserve, sales for the year to date were 2% better than last year. Predicted Chicago's Commercial Discount Corp., after a survey of 361 retailers: sales will wind up 1957 at least 6% higher than 1956's record...