Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contestants from the other five schools were virtual bystanders the Harvard performers set four one University, and two marks. When the dust cleared, college found itself in second with a measly total of 65 1/2. came Northeastern with 59, by B.U., M.I.T., and Tufts...
...broad jump is another virtual toss-up. Harvard's Aggrey Awori and Harvey Thomas are the only two competitors who have topped 22 ft. this spring, but B.C.'s Joe Kopka and B.U.'s Ed Johnson lead a host of 21 ft-plus jumpers who will be right at their heels...
Michael Stewart, a virtual unknown who was hurriedly thrust into the post of Foreign Secretary in place of Gordon Walker, has proved a happy surprise...
...organizing Peasant Leagues, some 50,000 strong, to take over the land by force. Then the Roman Catholic Church jumped in, set up schools to teach reading and writing, started its own labor unions-at risk of rupture with the powerful landlords who had long held the peasants in virtual peonage. The government, in turn, pressed ahead with a new federal agency, Sudene (for Superintendency of Northeast Development), which was created in 1959 to direct an ambitious long-range development program aimed at expanding agricultural production and pushing industrialization, the nine-state area's only real hope...
Yale's program, in contrast to existing foreign study programs, calls for a virtual furlough from academic discipline. In contrast to Harvard's leave of absence, it integrates that furlough with courses and tutorial when the student returns. It "consciously breaks the sequence of testable learning," says President Brewster, "not under the shadow of opprobrium or for a fancy 'grand tour' but as part of a programmed educational pattern which splices experience with learning." The essential feature of Yale's program is neither its $300,000 nor its provision for a year in underdeveloped areas. It is rather than...