Word: admittedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard may be wrong to admit these men in the first place but she cannot weight the burden of those admitted on insufficient proof. If a candidate is accepted, he must have met the minimum standards for entrance. Should any candidate lower the standards, he does not belong in Cambridge. To require a fifth course from a large group of Freshmen is a confession of inadequate standards and this group either has no place or that fifth course must be counted for credit. The CRIMSON prefers the latter solution...
...shopping for baby clothes. When news of The Cradle reached Hollywood, where most would-be mothers find little time for childbearing, Mrs. Walrath got her share of the business. Some applicants she turned down flat. But, usually reticent about names of her patrons, Mrs. Walrath is proud to admit that from The Cradle to Hollywood have gone Gracie Allen's Sandra Jean, Joe E. Brown's youngest child, Mary Elizabeth, Pat O'Brien's year-old Mavoureen, Miriam Hopkins' curly-mopped Michael...
...latest cinematic March of Time is an excellent sop to U. S. ignorance of Mexican affairs. Even U. S. Catholics, if they are candid, will admit that ecclesiastical control in Mexico has not been an unmixed blessing. The disestablishment of a church is a painful process in any country but is that any reason for presenting only the most lurid details, without any attempt at historical analysis? Give the Revolutionary Government of Mexico...
...Conductor Issai Dobrowen, flashy young Russian Jew, pocketed the $12,000 owed him by contract and departed in March for Oslo without having raised a baton. But music-loving San Francisco, which three years ago came to the fore with a magnificent new municipal opera house, was unwilling to admit defeat...
Many long-standing evils of required courses will be overcome by this eagerly awaited innovation. Most students and professors will readily admit that a man who takes a course in chemistry or government for no other reason than to work off a burdensome requirement is simply wasting his own and the University's time-far better spent on some subject which arouses and holds his interest. The plan is a happy compromise between Charles William Eliot's long discarded policy of giving the student complete freedom in the choice of all his courses and the system of concentration and distribution...