Word: widened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week ago to student council presidents of 2100 colleges requested that student government groups sponsor campus fund drives during the last week in April. Central direction for the drive will come from Boston, but a national organization of state and regional student chairmen is also being formed to widen the base of the appeal...
...relatively less natural rubber, textiles and metals. The commodity-producing countries are trying to industrialize, but production costs in their inefficient plants are steep, and many of the industrial nations have raised high tariffs and import quotas against them. If all this continues, predicts Prebisch, the trade gap will widen to $20 billion a year by 1970 and force the underdeveloped countries to slash their imports...
...sound conception of the role it should play within the College. Four years of college would be quite sterile, he argued, if the intellectual experiences provided came from courses and exams. By forming small units with resident tutors and a common dining room, Lowell hoped to widen the undergraduate's contacts with both students of other interests and the Faculty. Through these broader associations he expected the Houses to promote "a greater interest in things intellectual...
...makes pious reference to public opinion and the importance of gathering informed laymen's views on teacher education. The program he designs, however, would take little note of these views; by removing extensive state super-vision of teacher training it seeks not to increase public participation, but to widen professional control to include academic faculties. This aim is unrealistic. The ultimate effect of making institutions as a whole responsible for teacher training is to increase the accountability to the public, whether by statute or custom. Before they accept the responsibility that Conant offers, therefore, colleges must ask if they...
Since it would be unsafe for the Drive to widen beneath the underpasses and then narrow to its present width elsewhere, observers consider it likely that the road will eventually be widened along its entire length. Although this might not eliminate the grassy strip by the river, it would probably make it difficult for students to reach what remained...