Word: weight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideal form, tutorial should be provided for all who desire it. Efforts to improve it should not be made by diminishing the number of students it affects. If greater weight were given to tutorial in awarding Honors degrees, Honors candidates would become more interested in tutorial meetings. Also, increased funds should be appropriated toward this method of education: in the Program for Harvard College, for example, some of the large appropriation for athletic endowment could be transferred to the tutorial program. A large enough expenditure for tutorial would provide more tutors, but if individual tutorial were still not feasible, small...
...first time in 20 years, Democrats elected more mayors (29) than Republicans did (23). In Pittsburgh. Mayor David Leo Lawrence's fourth-term win established another record-breaking plurality. And in Republican New Jersey, where, to dike the Democratic tide, both President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon added weight to the ardent campaigning of Republican Malcolm Forbes, Governor Robert Meyner swamped Forbes (see below...
...steak, gravy and potatoes man from breakfast to dinner, 5-ft.11-in. Jim Shoulders stokes up with a will, but somehow he stays at his 145-lb. working weight. He seldom smokes or drinks. "I take good care of myself," he insists-a disingenuous way of describing a career that has already cost him two broken collarbones, two broken arms, two broken legs and two broken ankles. Both knees have been sprung so that he has to tape them before riding; one thigh muscle has been pulled so often that it has to be strapped down. "Shucks," says Shoulders...
...Hagen, director of U.S. Project Vanguard, thinks the Russians never intended to. Even if already dead, the dog cannot merely be pushed into space like the dog in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (see cut). Rocket "braking" is necessary. Dr. Hagen believes that the weight of Sputnik 11 is not enough to include the rocket fuel that would be needed to check the speed of the satellite and bring the dog down through the atmosphere...
Honors seniors will automatically be enrolled in English 99, tutorial for credit, as is now the policy with most other departments. More weight will also be given to tutors' reports of concentrators than at present, Bate added...