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...Connecticut. Emma Willard took in only $80,000 in gifts last year, all of which went to scholarships and loans to 62 of its 340 students. A $5,000,000 fund-raising drive aims to finance new construction, raise teachers' salaries (average: $4,000-$5,000), and widen scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Private Schools: On the Slopes of Mt. Ida | 6/26/1964 | See Source »

...remains with the formula outlined above: "While it rewards a student for work outside his field, it may also destroy the record of, say, an adventurous English concentrator who decided to take a physics course. In this case the formula would narrow the educational scope it set out to widen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over-Concentration | 3/19/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Peter R. Kann, | Title: National Student Group To Boost JFK Library | 3/11/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Trade: The Underdeveloped Get Together | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Peek at the Houses | 2/20/1964 | See Source »

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