Word: acquaintence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee feels that education, none the less, should acquaint the student with the questions religion raises and the answers it gives. "Commitment is based on free choice, and choice, to be truly free, demands a knowledge of all the possibilities...
Under the leadership of their new Master and their Senior Tutor, the men at Kirkland House were experimenting. Early in the fall they began a tutorial program for science majors, designed to acquaint budding scientists with the philosophy of their subject. Latest reports have it that they are reading about expanding universes. Even Professorial families may expand to keep pace with the fashion; professors may soon be able to get special grants to educate their children--provided they have children. We agreed with Malthus in approving this kind of growth...
Fortunately the College, realizing its responsibility to the country, is conducting an intensive nationwide campaign to acquaint both students and secondary schools with admissions problems, giving some general idea of what type of student Harvard wants. It is this guidance now offered to most prospective candidates which has become one of the few encouraging developments of the current rapid rise in the number of students who wish to continue their education. In the future those schools offering the most comprehensive college advising programs will be the ones which place the largest number of students in colleges of their first choice...
...throw out the framework of a single drive. The advantage the students get out of one drive is so great that abandoning it would change an unfortunate situation into an impossible one. Still, the committee should realize that any charity drive that fails to collect enough funds and to acquaint students with the charities' work is worth little more than a unsigned check...
...committee, which will include a member from each undergraduate class and a legal adviser, will meet with local merchants and trade groups to acquaint the merchants with the students' needs...