Word: term
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...respects to Harvard's individual tutorial system. In this way, the instructor can be expected to learn and fill the requirements of each student, giving in effect a different course to each conferee. As with Harvard tutorial, examinations are rare and most faculty members conscientiously avoid them. Term papers, traditionally referred to as "contracts," are expected of each student...
...response to a query about his own plans for the next year, Furcolo admitted, "My ambition is the United States Senate," but declared that he would not decide but whether to stand for the Senate or a third term as governor until he could appraise the possibility of making faster progress with his legislative program. He specifically cited the fields of education and mental health as demanding action...
Shortly before Buttrick came to Cambridge, President Pusey asked a number of distinguished guest preachers for the Spring term to cancel their Sunday visits to memorial Church, so that Buttrick (called by Life magazine one of the nation's "ten greatest preachers") could deliver most of the sermons, and give the Services "Continuity...
...result of fumbled fiscal policy. Who is to blame for that? Says Alexander: "The Administration's policy is good, and the Treasury is doing all it can.'' The real villain, he says, is Congress. It has refused to raise the 47% ceiling rate on long-term Treasury bonds, thus forced the Treasury to do its financing at competitive rates in the short-term market, to which private borrowers are turning in increasing numbers to get their money. The Treasury has thus sopped up billions-and within a year forced up the rates on short-term loans...
...upward force is unlikely." He does not think that tight money will harm the boom: "The supply of money and credit is not exhausted. The banking system is heavily loaned, but not loaned up." He is not concerned about high money rates, points out that for long periods short-term rates wrere actually above long-term yields. Says he: "If we are to preserve our free economy, that has to be expected, and it is exactly the right medicine to forestall inflation. After 20 years of abnormally low rates, present rates are in the area of normal rates...