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...fulfills conception of a General Education. The common purpose has been out while the function of each has become more specialized for an elementary Department, to take in less- students for whom the might be too difficult, or to freshmen who dislike , say. These are , not always explicit, that widen splits in the program...

Author: By Martin J., | Title: General Education's Problems in the Natural Science | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

Admittedly, the lecture system has limitations. It tends to induce a certain amount of passivity on the part of the student; it tends to widen the gap between student and instructor; it tends to over-emphasize the position of one authority, and the student is in danger of coming out of the lecture of even an undogmatic professor in a dogmatic frame of mind. Moreover, it can be abused. A few lecturers are unprepared and disorganized. Some, with the power of hypnotic verbalization, manage to hold their audiences through sheer personality rather than because they have anything important...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: The Lecture System: Its Value at Harvard | 6/14/1962 | See Source »

Both sides should further consider a scheme wherein if either feels its security dependent on a resumption of atmospheric testing, this is permissible with international monitoring. Information going to both sides will widen no gaps, and thus the logical requirements of stabilized deterrence will not be violated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Outlook at Geneva | 3/15/1962 | See Source »

...special edition of the Pennsylvania News, a woman's activities weekly, was also distributed today. It contained a news story on the suspension but no editorial. The News staff said that an editorial on the Pennsylvania's suspension might widen the rift between the Penn Student Government Association and the editors of the newspaper...

Author: By Frederic Ballard, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: 2000 Copies Of 'Crimson' Read at Penn | 2/28/1962 | See Source »

...barefoot boy of Wall Street" lies deeper: both have something of the "dreamy kid" about them, an almost childlike faith in an ultimate reconciliation. Romney's call to "return American politics to the American people," like Willkie's plea for "One World," indicates a deep-felt desire to widen the boundaries of "the possible" in politics...

Author: By Michael W. Schwartz, | Title: Lochinvar Brave | 2/17/1962 | See Source »

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