Word: admit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...provision that no credit be given for courses by-passed. The aim of the plan should be to make a student's four years in the College more worthwhile, not to provide him with an easy path to three-year graduation. For this reason the Committee's proposal to admit a number of men directly into the Houses as sophomores seems unsound. Those given sophomore status would have their total course requirements reduced to 12 from the usual 16. Although the Committee would encourage these students to stay on for the full four years, it is unrealistic to think they...
...shorten the four years required for a Master's degree, the School will now admit qualified students in exceptional cases, either at the end of three years of college training or with advanced standing...
...politicians run for office for the same reason that other folks run for a commuters' train: to keep their jobs or win better ones. Politics is their business, and to its fortunes they commit their education, their economic well-being and their egos. Since they are loth to admit this, they profess to hear the shrill call of public invitation. By last week the whistle was singing in the ears of several political commuters. Examples...
...increased to 139,000 men, the navy to 16,000 men and 93,000 tons of warships. Yoshida's proposals drew angry shouts from Socialist and Progressive opponents, one of whom asserted that the Premier's budget had been "written in the American embassy." Privately, these opponents admit that they are only shadowboxing. They want U.S. troops to leave Japanese soil, but they know the only way to bring that about is for the country to become strong enough to defend itself...
...friends in the U.S., among them ex-President Harry Truman. Even his sharpest critics acknowledge that his political sense has accomplished much for Greek-Turkish relations. Says one of them: "Athenagoras is not essentially an ecclesiast or a scholar. He is a religio-politician. But I must admit that he is a man of great vision...