Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lost out in attempting to maintain a 13:1 student-faculty ratio. Legislative fiat revised this figure to 15:1. (Harvard's ratio is approximately 3.1.) "Even if we received the salary increase, we lost out," Mather comments wryly, "since professors are not interchangeable parts. The type of thinking--that a 13:1 ratio means there are 13 students to each class--is completely wrong. This makes professors only teachers; they must have time to think up ideas." With so much time necessarily devoted to instruction, few members of the UMass faculty have the opportunity for independent research, "the underpinning...
...Four, thereby put an end to one of football's most unfulfilled and peripatetic careers (three high schools, two colleges, four pro teams), which had largely been botched by the boisterous stage-mothering of stepfather Harvey Knox. "Football is a game for animals," said Ronnie. "I like to think I'm above that." Dreaming of higher things, Ronnie allowed he might toss off a novel or some poetry, already had some lines at hand that lurched with the proper beatnik beat...
...think the very flat refusal to take care of the matter of our long-range financing is one of the most serious things that has happened to the United States in my time." Thus President Eisenhower last week criticized Congress for its failure to raise the 4¼% ceiling on long-term Government bond rates (TIME, Sept. 21). Raising the interest the Government pays on such bonds, argued Congressmen, would only be an open invitation to all other money rates to go up, would cost the Government more to finance its debt. Last week interest rates were going up anyway...
...Bikini swimming suit, which made a coy appearance on some beaches last summer, will make a big splash along U.S. shores next summer. At least, the swimsuit makers think so. At their showing of suits for winter resorts and next sum mer, makers ranging from big Catalina, and Cole of California, to Manhattan's petite Margaret Pennington, were plainly convinced that the Bikini, and two-piece suits in general, will be the brief thing to wear. Reasons: the rise in private pools, the step-up in travel to Europe, which has broadened the U.S. woman's taste while...
...solutions have emerged, no one can deny that such talks are a good thing. Conference will continue on most of the major questions, and, if both sides can discard some of their ingrained suspicions, some agreements may be miraculously produced. It may not be unduly optimistic to think that the Khrushchev visit and Eisenhower's springtime trip to Russia will make the important world issues not insoluble, but merely unsolved...