Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Filling Dunster House Large Common Room last night, perspective members of the new Harvard Council on Post-War Problems heard Bruce C. Hopper '18, associate professor of Government, describe their future work as important because their decisions will be "fresher, more audacious, more willing to admit drastic solutions to post-war issues" than the "woolly-headed, emotional adult committees" that now clutter the scene...
...letter, Seymour said, "We like to see good players go to Yale. We are all agreed that athletes should be admitted to Yale on exactly the same terms as anyone else, no harder and no easier. If the athlete needs financial assistance in order to win an education at Yale his application should be judged by the same criteria as those applied to the non-athlete. It is the Yale tradition that we admit athletes and non-athletes upon an exactly even plane...
Much as many a good liberal and radical hates to admit it, Harvard depends and has depended since its beginnings on the generosity and patronage of the rich. Two sources contribute to the income of the University. First there are the tuitions; which keep the system going and, roughly speaking, pay the current expenses. Second there are the gifts of alumni and friends, the basis of the University's expansion in the last seventy years and the foundation of Harvard's ability to continue as possibly the most distinguished center of intellectual activity in the world today. Interest on these...
...ship reached Rio de Janeiro, the refugees found that their visas were good for only 90 days-90 days they had spent at Dakar-and the Brazilian authorities would not let them ashore. A few days later the boat sailed again, on a forlorn chance that perhaps Argentina would admit them...
Equally important is the Libyan campaign from the Axis viewpoint, although Berlin has so far refused to admit that it is anything more than a local scrap. The Italians, however, have been much franker about the matter in confessing that the future of Italy depends upon the outcome in Africa. Strategically based planes could destroy Italian cities by night bombing expeditions and with the aid of the British navy they can send the Italian fleet off to Davy Jones private pool. But if the Germans refuse to admit the seriousness of the stakes in Africa their recent actions of forcing...