Word: vis
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...second point of criticism relates to the cost of higher education vis-a-vis the charge. Here the CRIMSON concentrates on the small time given by faculty to undergraduates and the large costs of graduate instruction...
What I am proposing is a charge that would make it possible to attract able young men into the teaching profession. With the faculty experiencing a deterioration of economic status of 50 per cent vis-a-vis the rest of the population in 25 years and with demand for faculty rising four times as fast as for the whole working population in the next 15 years, an improved economic position of faculty is indispensable to maintain the high quality of a college education and in particular of a Harvard education... Seymour E. Harris, Professor of Economics
...that they are here, they have become immersed in study, and in writing papers in a foreign tongue. "I have to read math problems three times before I understand them," Julius says. Though they like Harvard they are not entirely in accord with Harvard's methods of education vis-a-vis the Hungarian and continental way. "You are not exactly students in the same way I was in Hungary," Heimlet asserts. "You have more freedom here, but I don't think it is good. You have a course, you write four or five papers a year, you write two finals...
...George Watson had an interesting article on teaching problems vis-a-vis undergraduates. We are all sympathetic with the undergraduates who feel that they do not see enough of the faculty and especially the older members of the faculty. This was a less serious problem when in the interwar period we had a smaller student body and an excellent tutorial system. Unfortunately, the latter proved very costly...
Yovcisin (pronounced yah'-vis-sin) has not met any of next year's Crimson football players, but on one of his visits he watched motion pictures of the Harvard-Dartmouth game of last fall. He expects to come up to Cambridge again late next week, but not to move permanently for more than a month...