Word: adoptive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adopt a rule which tends to eliminate all "browsing" in other fields and which hinders men attempting, without tutorial, to prepare themselves for divisionals and a thesis is worse than short-sighted, particularly when the average student must sacrifice his liberal course work to the Math and Physics needed for military training. Free auditing has always been one of the main ways of filling curricular gaps and that is more important now than ever...
Harvard, under the direction of William J. Bingham '16 as Director of Athletics, has been among the first of the colleges in the country to adopt a compulsory physical training program in the present. And since its adoption here, most of the other colleges and universities have followed suit...
...Committee making the report also felt that "the interviewers for the Bureau should adopt a more aggressive policy regarding those seeking advice. Those men who want a definite commitment or suggestion from the interviewer certainly should...
...chance of being qualified as an oboist," he recalled, "and I should have jumped at it if I could have obtained ?14, which was the price of a second-hand oboe seventy years ago. For want of that sum I was lost to woodwind forever and had to adopt a profession in which the equipment was 6 pennyworth of stationery...
...Rocky Mountain News, which in its wild and woolly youth was sometimes printed on wrapping paper, is the second* Scripps-Howard sheet to adopt a small format. Business Manager Howard William Hailey explains that he had an itch to get hold of the national Sunday supplement Parade, which is syndicated by Marshall Field III. The savings the News will make (mostly by dropping its old Sunday magazine and reducing the size of its comic section) will more than pay for Parade...